Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain vase, decorated in Chinese style in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain, thrown, and painted in blue, bluish-green, yellow, purple and black enamels. Bulbous body with a narrow neck, flaring towards the mouth, standing on a footring. Decorated on the body with branching sprays of Oriental-style flowers, and round the rim with a purple line.
History note: Sotheby's, uncertain sale date, purchased by the vendor for £3.10; purchased from Stanley Wollston, Cambridge on 6 September 1922 for £4 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Bequeathed by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Height: 13.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1749
-
1752
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, bluish-green, 6yellow, purple, and black)
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3048-1928
Primary reference Number: 133853
Old object number: 3924
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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