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Silver lustre pagoda vase
Dark red-grey earthenware, moulded and dipped in silver (platinum) lustre.
Vase moulded in four sections, being three stacking base parts of diminishing size and a tall, inverted cone lid with central finial, the whole resembling a Chinese pagoda. All parts entirely covered in silver lustre. The base parts are rectangular in plan and each has plain sides and bevelled corners, from which project sockets for the insertion of flowers. The bottom tier stands on four corner legs on a stepped base and has sockets moulded as crowned human masks. On the other two tiers the sockets are fluted. , those on the next two tiers are fluted. The cover is in the form of an inverted cone with a finial. The underside is flat, within a deep foot-ring formed by the steps.
History note: Bought at Gill and Reigate, Oxford Street, W. on 14 February, 1912 for £9.10 (nine pounds ten shillings), by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928
Depth: 12.5 cm
Height: 34.7 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
1810
CE
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1840
CE
Decoration composed of lustre ( silver (platinum) lustre)
Moulding : Earthenware, moulded in sections, and covered with silver (platinum) lustre
Accession number: C.1169A-D-1928
Primary reference Number: 71447
Old object number: 3494
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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