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Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain vase and cover, decorated with flower sprays in onglaze polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted in red, pink, purple, green and black enamels and gilt. The vase is of slender baluster shape, with a cylindrical neck and domed cover, surmounted by a conical knob. It stands on a low partially glazed footring. It is painted with a spray of lilies and anemones, the reverse with a sprig of convolvus, the shoulders with a gilt loop and dot, and line, border. In a garniture with two other vases, C.3124.1 & A-1928 and C.3124.3-1928.
History note: Bought for Dr Glaisher by Mr Hunt for £5 at the sale of the Mr Levine Collection, Sotheby's, April 30th 1925, lot 115.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1770
CE
-
1775
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( red, pink, purple, green and black)
gold
Cover
Vase
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3124.2 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 38347
Old object number: 4531b, vol. 27
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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