Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted with a Chinese scene in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamel, outlined in black and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamel, outlined in black and gilt. The vase is of hexagonal, facetted flattened pear shape, with two facetted lug handles on the neck, and is supported on a flared foot. It is painted on one side in 'famille-rose' style with a Chinese lady seated by a table laid for tea, with a boy holding a sceptre. The reverse has a flowering shrub growing from rockwork, flanked by two floral branches. The neck is painted with scattered flower sprays, birds and insects, and the rim has a border of alternate stylised florettes and triangular green trellis diaper vignettes.
History note: From the Dr. Stanley sale, Sotheby's 30th January 1942, lot 49 (catalogue missing). From the Collection of the late Michael Moseley, sold by Sotheby's, 16th January 1946, Rare Meissen Porcelain, Continental and English Porcelain and Enamels, lot 2 (fetched £40); H.E. Backer from whom purchased.
Bought from H.E. Backer through the Glaisher Fund
Height: 27.0 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1947) by Backer, H.E.
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1752
-
1755
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, blue and pink) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, painted in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamel, outlined in black and gilt
Accession number: C.5-1947
Primary reference Number: 34363
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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