IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131315 accession number: C.31-2006 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china, slip-cast, printed underglaze in blue and gilded. The vase stands on a circular straight-sided foot. The sides are set in from its edge, and rise upwards and slightly outwards and then curve inwards to the circular mouth. The sides have eight alternately receding and projecting facets. The shoulders are decorated with panels printed in reserve in blue with the words ‘.ELIZABETH.’ ‘.& PHILIP.’ ‘.MARRIED.’ ‘.NOV.20TH 1947’. These alternative with panels of roses and foliage. The sides have spaced rows of the initials EP in gold., and on the underside of the base in gold is an inscription, ‘THE MARRIAGE OF H.R.H./PRINCESS ELIZABETH/TO LIEUT. PHILIP.MOUNTBATTEN/R.N.’ surrounding the factory’s backstamp. object type: Bone china, slip cast, printed underglaze in blue, and gilt title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Hope and Glory, 131a Kensington Church Street, London, W8 7LP; private collection LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131315 TECHNIQUES ---------- bone china, slip cast, printed underglaze in blue, and gilt slip casting TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1947 - 1947 creation date earliest: 1947 creation date latest: 1947 culture: 20th Century, Mid culture: George VI CREATORS -------- maker: Minton maker: Wadsworth, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23 CITATIONS -------- Minton, The First Two Hundred Years of Design and Production ---