Figural Flower Vase
ca. 1752-1754 (made)
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Figural flower vase, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, formed as a girl with a vase of flowers on her head, dressed in a long flowered robe with a crimson sash thrown loosely around her waist, and she stands on a rococo scrolled base and carries a wreath of flowers in her left hand while the right hand is raised to support the vase which is fluted with a expanding wavy rim which rests above a garland of flowers on her head.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Figural flower vase, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, formed as a girl with a vase of flowers on her head and dressed in a long flowered robe, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, London, ca. 1752-1754 |
| Physical description | Figural flower vase, in soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels, formed as a girl with a vase of flowers on her head, dressed in a long flowered robe with a crimson sash thrown loosely around her waist, and she stands on a rococo scrolled base and carries a wreath of flowers in her left hand while the right hand is raised to support the vase which is fluted with a expanding wavy rim which rests above a garland of flowers on her head. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | One of a pair of figures of girls 414:19&/A-1885 (Sch. I 32&A) The pair was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Dr Broome at Orpington, Sale at Christie's, for £23 10 shillings 27 February 1883 |
| Production | The design is copied, with variations, from Delft tin-glazed earthenware prototypes of about 1695 (Hilary Young, ‘A Bow caryatid and its source’, Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, Vol. 22, Part 2, 2013, pp. 175-179). |
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| Other number | Sch. I 32A - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:19/A-1885 |
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| Record created | December 4, 2008 |
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