IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 34363 accession number: C.5-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamel, outlined in black and gilt. The vase is of hexagonal, facetted flattened pear shape, with two facetted lug handles on the neck, and is supported on a flared foot. It is painted on one side in 'famille-rose' style with a Chinese lady seated by a table laid for tea, with a boy holding a sceptre. The reverse has a flowering shrub growing from rockwork, flanked by two floral branches. The neck is painted with scattered flower sprays, birds and insects, and the rim has a border of alternate stylised florettes and triangular green trellis diaper vignettes. object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted with a Chinese scene in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamel, outlined in black and gilt. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Dr. Stanley sale, Sotheby's 30th January 1942, lot 49 (catalogue missing). From the Collection of the late Michael Moseley, sold by Sotheby's, 16th January 1946, Rare Meissen Porcelain, Continental and English Porcelain and Enamels, lot 2 (fetched £40); H.E. Backer from whom purchased. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought from H.E. Backer through the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/34363 PEOPLE ------------------- woman boy SUBJECTS ------------------- table sceptre birds insects shrub flower sprays table sceptre birds insects shrub flower sprays TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, painted in red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamel, outlined in black and gilt glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- English Ceramics English Porcelain of the 18th Century Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, 1751-1783 Worcester Porcelain and Lund's Bristol ---