Urn
ca. 1775 (made)
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Urn on a pedestal of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted bell-shaped with a circular pedestal foot mounted on a columnar plinth of square section. Decorated with boys as satyrs, as handles, and holding garlands of green leaves suspended between them. The base is decorated with gadrooning picked out in puce.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Urn on a pedestal of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Zürich faience and porcelain factory, Zürich, ca. 1775. |
| Physical description | Urn on a pedestal of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted bell-shaped with a circular pedestal foot mounted on a columnar plinth of square section. Decorated with boys as satyrs, as handles, and holding garlands of green leaves suspended between them. The base is decorated with gadrooning picked out in puce. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Z' above three dots (In underglaze blue) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Claude W. Heneage |
| Object history | One of a pair with C.21-1953. |
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| Accession number | C.21A-1953 |
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| Record created | March 9, 2010 |
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