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Two-handled Vase in Antique Style
Earthenware, decorated with classical figures and ornament in polychrome enamels and gilt reserved in a bright blue background.
A tall vase of amphora form with strap handles from shoulder to neck and flaring mouth. The body is decorated with two scenes of six figures in classical dress, one figure a woman. On one side the figures are running with a winged horse, and carrying torches. On the other the woman plays two long pipes and the men dance. The mouth of the vase is decorated with vine scroll; the shoulders and neck with bands of mistletoe, Greek key, anthemion and vitruvian scroll, and the foot with an egg and dart border. The handles and rim are gilt. The inside of the mouth is cream and glazed, with two gilt bands. The underside is deeply recessed, and glazed, with a broad un-glazed foot rim.
History note: Charles and Lavinia Handley Read; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate
Purchased with the Perceval Fund and with Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria & Albert Museum
Height: 52 cm
Height: 20.5 in
Width: 24.5 cm
Width: 9.625 in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1972-10-19) by Stainton, Thomas
Victorian
Circa
1860
CE
-
1862
CE
Decoration
composed of
glaze
( presumed lead glaze)
enamel
gold
Base
Width 14.5 cm
Width 9.75 in
Parts
Throwing : Earthenware, decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt reserved in a bright blue background.
Inscription present: words inside oval decorated border
Inscription present: the S and A a monogram
Inscription present: three lables giving Cassell’s, Owen Jones and Art Journal references (see documentation)
Accession number: C.44-1972
Primary reference Number: 75111
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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