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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Barr, Flight & Barr (maker) Baxter, Thomas (painter)
Place of origin	Worcester (made)

Vase of porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Urn-shaped with concave sides. Flaring rim with a beaded border and below it is a sloping neck with a border of palmettes in gold. On one side of the body is a panel showing Adam and Eve in the Garden, a scene from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. On the other side is a harp supported by symmetrical foliated scrollwork. Two gilt handles with helmeted heads, and a square foot.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Vase
Materials and techniques	Porcelain painted in colours and gilded Porcelain Painted Gilded
Brief description	Vase of porcelain painted in colours and gilded, painted by Thomas Baxter, Barr, Flight & Barr, Worcester, ca. 1815.
Physical description	Vase of porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Urn-shaped with concave sides. Flaring rim with a beaded border and below it is a sloping neck with a border of palmettes in gold. On one side of the body is a panel showing Adam and Eve in the Garden, a scene from Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. On the other side is a harp supported by symmetrical foliated scrollwork. Two gilt handles with helmeted heads, and a square foot.
Dimensions	Height: 17.8cm Diameter: 11.4cm
Marks and inscriptions	'BFB' [under a crown] (Impressed) 'Flight Barr & Barr Royal Porcelain Works Worcester London House No. 1 Coventry Street' (Written in black) 'Paradise Lost / Now at his feet submissive in distress / Book 10' (Inscribed at the bottom in red)
Credit line	Given by Herbert Eccles, Esq.
Subjects depicted	Palmettes Garden Scrollwork Foliated Adam and Eve
Literary reference	Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.242-1919

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O334797/vase-baxter-thomas/

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