'Madras' ewer
Factory: Copeland
Bone china, of 'Madras' shape, decorated with jewelling in turquoise, green, pink, red and white enamels within gilded borders reserved in a dark blue ground, and gildng overall on the handle and inside of the neck
Bone china, decorated with dark blue ground colour, jewelling in blue, green, pink, red, and white enamels, and with silvering (now grey) and gilding. The ewer is of 'Madras' shape, with a globular body standing on a footring, a slender cylindrical neck which expands slightly towards the rim, and a double wavy handle attached to the upper neck and to the top of the shoulder. The handle has an inward scroll at the top, five holes in its back, and is divided into two at the lower end. The body and neck are covered by an ornate repeating design of jewelled scrolls enclosing silver fan-motifs, and stylized foliage, all outlined in tooled gold on a dark blue ground. There are horizontal bands of jewelled scrolls between bands of white beading round the upper and lower ends of the neck. The footring, the handle and the inside of the neck are gilded overall.
History note: Ronald S. Copeland (1918-2002); William Copeland (b. 1966); Bonham’s 23-24 July, 2013, The Contents of Trelissick House including the Copeland China China Collection, Feock, Trelissick, Cornwall, day 2, lot lot 658
Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (2013-10-14) by Bonhams
19th Century, Mid#
Victoria I
Circa
1850
CE
-
1851
CE
The decoration may have been inspired by a design entitled 'JEWEL EMBROIDERY/(style, old Italian)' by Charles James Richardson, published in his 'Studies of Ornamental Design', 1851, and said to have been taken from an Italian painting.
The form of this ewer was described as 'Madras' shape by Copeland, may have been derived from an Indian vase, pūrṇaghaṭa, known as a ‘full vase’ or ‘vase of abundance’, a decorative motif in Buddhist and Indian art. The earliest Copeland example appears to be this ewer which was made for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The factory also made vases of similar form which did not have handles.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
gold
Body
clear
Glaze
Bone china
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on-label with scalloped edge
Accession number: C.8-2013
Primary reference Number: 197411
Old object number: R.S.C. 74
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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