Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Meissen Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Hard-paste porcelain painted over glaze in blue, green, yellow, red, mauve, and black enamels, and gilded on the finial only. The base, the inside of the rim, and the underside of the rim of the cover are ungalzed
Hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with flowering plants, two birds, and insects in, and gilded on the finial
Hard-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, mauve, and black enamels; the base and inside of the rim of the vase, and the flat underside of the rim of the cover are unglazed, The enamels on the cover are less bright, and the decoration includes gilding. Hexagonal with a short neck, curved shoulders and sides tapering inwards towards the base. The domed hexagonal cover has a deep internal flange, and a mushroom finial. It is extremely heavy for its size. The sides are decorated with two red birds perching on a mauve branch which projects to the viewer's right from a clump of polychrome flowering plants and has leaves and flowers on its end. The angle opposite to the birds is decorated with six small sprigs and there are two winged insects and several small sprigs and leaves on the shoulder. The neck has a border of red rectangular meander pattern. The cover is decorated with one red bird perching on a mauve branch extending to the left from a group of flowering plants with two gilded buds. The finial is decorated with a gold star.
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Wilfrid Ariel Evill
Measurements and weight
Height: 31 cm
Width: 19.3 cm
Place(s) associated
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Meissen
⪼ Saxony
⪼ Germany
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1963-05-23)
by
Evill, Wilfrid Ariel
Dating
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1727
CE
-
1730
CE
School or Style
Kakiemon
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, red, mauve, and black)
gold
Base
Width 11.8 cm
Visible Surfaces
Materials used in production
presumed feldspathic
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: extremely faint, almost illegible
- Text: AR monogram
- Location: On unglazed base
- Method of creation: Painted in blue, now extremely faint
- Type: Factory mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.6 & A-1963
Primary reference Number: 140337
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 31 July 2023
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
