IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131256 accession number: EC.31 & A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain covered perfume vase, painted in polychrome enamel-colours and gilt. Ovoid body with elaborate rococo handles and four scroll feet, the neck and cover pierced. The body is decorated with a turquoise oeil de perdrix ground and with two oval reserves, one painted with the Trojan women carrying away the body of Polyxena, the other with a Dutch genre scene in the manner of Teniers. The handles, feet and piercing are outlined in gold. object type: Soft-paste porcelain covered perfume vase, decorated with a mythological scene and a Dutch genre scene in polychrome onglaze enamels and gilt. title: vase LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131256 PEOPLE ------------------- Trojan women Polyxena TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated with a mythological scene and a Dutch genre scene in polychrome ong;aze enamels and gilt glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1771 - 1773 creation date earliest: 1771 creation date latest: 1773 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea-Derby Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 43.0 CITATIONS -------- Contributions towards the History of Early English Porcelain from Contemporary Sources Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Thirtieth Annual Report, for the Year 1938 Chelsea Porcelain Chelsea Porcelain, The Gold Anchor Wares Rococo Art and Design in Hogarth's England, 16 May-30 September 1984 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_31_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 621 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_EC_31_1938.jpg height: 612 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/EC_31_1938.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 621 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_EC_31_1938.jpg height: 306 pixels width: 250 pixels