Plaque
ca. 1775 (made)
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Plaque of biscuit (unglazed) white hard-paste porcelain; oval, and with a bas-relief of a vase decorated with a festoon of flowers delicately modelled in full relief; the vase takes the form of a classical urn with a domed cover surmounted by a cone-shaped finial, a rim moulded with acanthus-foliage above a narrow band of guilloche pattern, and a high foliated foot rising form a square plinth, which rests on a mass modelled to imitate a rock; the lower part of the body of the vase is fluted, and the festoons pass through two rings hanging on the rim; the plaque is mounted in a glazed turned-wood frame with a gilded hollow
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Biscuit (unglazed) white hard-porcelain, with turned and gilded wooden frame |
| Brief description | Plaque of biscuit (unglazed) white hard-paste porcelain mounted in a wooden frame, oval and with a bas-relief of a vase decorated with a festoon of flowers delicately modelled in full relief, Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, ca. 1775 |
| Physical description | Plaque of biscuit (unglazed) white hard-paste porcelain; oval, and with a bas-relief of a vase decorated with a festoon of flowers delicately modelled in full relief; the vase takes the form of a classical urn with a domed cover surmounted by a cone-shaped finial, a rim moulded with acanthus-foliage above a narrow band of guilloche pattern, and a high foliated foot rising form a square plinth, which rests on a mass modelled to imitate a rock; the lower part of the body of the vase is fluted, and the festoons pass through two rings hanging on the rim; the plaque is mounted in a glazed turned-wood frame with a gilded hollow |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Given to Lady Charlotte Schreiber by Mr Edkins, Bristol, in 1884 |
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| Other number | Sch. I 780 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:739-1885 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2009 |
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