Vase and Cover

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

Artist/Maker	Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Vauxhall (made)

Vase and cover of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded. The cover is modelled with two putti holding the Phrygian cap of Liberty. The vase and cover are the correct shapes for one another, but are not original to one another, as the decoration does not match.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Vase and cover
Parts	This object consists of 2 parts. Vase Cover
Materials and techniques	Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted with enamels, and gilded Soft Paste Porcelain Painted Gilded Moulded
Brief description	Vase and cover of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded, Vauxhall porcelain factory, Vauxhall, 1752-54
Physical description	Vase and cover of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded. The cover is modelled with two putti holding the Phrygian cap of Liberty. The vase and cover are the correct shapes for one another, but are not original to one another, as the decoration does not match.
Dimensions	Height: 14.5cm
Production	Probably enamelled and gidled outside the factory
Subjects depicted	Scroll Tritons
Bibliographic references	Spero, Simon. Vauxhall Porcelain - A Tentative Chronology, English Ceramics Circle Transactions, 2003, Volume 18, part 2, pp 349-372. Illlustrated fig. 4, p. 351 'An early rococo vase and cover c1752-53'. Another example of the same shape is fig. 23, p. 357. 'The highly ornate, rococo-moulded cone-shaped vase and cover, recurs frequently among this small early class of Vauxhall....The rococo vases, the remarkable large dragon-handled ewers derived from contemporary silver and the moulded pedestal cream jugs, all exhibit a measure of rococo exuberance entirely absent from the more conventional domestic output of the later 1750s'. For this shape, see The English Ceramic Circle, Ceramics of Vauxhall (2007), cat. 25-26, where dated ca. 1753-54 For another example, with different decoration, see the Watney Collection, Part I, Phillips, London, 22 Septermber 1999, lot 345, where dated 1755-58
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.145&A-1965

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O334912/vase-and-cover-vauxhall-porcelain-factory/

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