Not currently on display at the V&A

Vase

ca. 1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Bulbous neck with a flaring mouth, inverted pear-shaped body and high foot. The surface is moulded with a wicker pattern divided into vertical panels by gilt lines. Detached flowers and fruit, modelled and painted, are applied in high relief at intervals over the surface.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and modelled and gilded
Brief description
Vase of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Meissen porcelain factory, Meissen, ca. 1850.
Physical description
Vase of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Bulbous neck with a flaring mouth, inverted pear-shaped body and high foot. The surface is moulded with a wicker pattern divided into vertical panels by gilt lines. Detached flowers and fruit, modelled and painted, are applied in high relief at intervals over the surface.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords (In blue)
  • Transliteration
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Credit line
Given by Mrs Herbert Allen (Maude Louise Allen)
Object history
From a model by Johann Joachim Kaendler.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.70-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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