IDENTIFIERS
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id:	317584
accession number:	C.12-2024

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Monday 19 August 2024
updated:	Wednesday 25 June 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Parian porcelain painted in blue, turquoise and red enamels, and gilded. The ewer has a globular body, contracting at the top into a slender trumpet-shaped neck and mouth, with an applied S-shaped handle forming a ring at the top, ornamented by male mask on the back of the ring, and a female mask at the junction of the lower end and the shoulder. The shoulder is decorated with a continuous arabesque design in gold, blue, and red, with turquoise 'jewels'. Above and below are narrow borders of red crosses and blue ovals between gold lines. Below the rim, inside and outside, is a blue horizontal band with alternating gold motifs over it.  The outlines of the leaf and scroll moulding on the handle are gilded, and there are turquoise jewels on its upper part and gold jewels on the lower part.
title:	ewer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: bought in 1995 from National Exhibitions Centre Antiques Fair, Birmingham by John Edward Trice, MA, LLM (1941-2022); bequeathed by him


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by John Edward Trice, 2022, received 2024

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317584





CATEGORIES
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category: Parian (porcelain)

DATING
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creation date:	1851 - 1865
creation date earliest:	1851
creation date latest:	1865
culture:	19th Century, third quarter
culture:	Victoria

CREATORS
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maker: W.T. Copeland

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 16.7



CITATIONS
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Spode-Copeland-Spode, The Works and its People 1779-1970
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