Factory: Plymouth Porcelain Manufactory
Hard-paste porcelain vase, decorated with insects and exotic birds in polychrome enamels.
Hard-paste porcelain vase, painted in red, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown onglaze enamels, and gilt. The slender baluster vase stands on a stepped base with a ground footring, with a short neck and flared mouth. It is painted with a continuous scene of exotic birds in a park, with a large butterfly and moth above, and pendant floral garlands below, with a band of gilt rocaillerie around the shoulders.
History note: Bought from The Radford Collection Sale, the Property of Mrs Radford, Lested Lodge, Well Walk, Hampstead, Sotheby's, 4th November 1943, lot 178, £44.00
Bought from Sotheby's through the Leverton Harris Fund
Height: 17.5 cm
Width: 10.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1943) by Sotheby's
18th century
George III
Circa
1768
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration composed of enamels gold
Glazing (coating) : Hard-paste porcelain painted in red, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown onglaze enamels, and gilt
Accession number: EC.58-1943
Primary reference Number: 40483
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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