Factory:
Humphrey Chamberlain's Factory
Baxter, Thomas
(Attributed to)
Soft-paste porcelain spill vase, painted with feathers in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain spill vase, painted in enamel colours and gilt. Cylindrical with everted rim and projecting foot. On the front of the vase, are naturalistically painted feathers in a rectangular panel with a wide gilt frame, reserved in a pale orange ground decorated overall with gilt leaves. Formal gilt border under the rim and a gilt band on the foot. In a pair with C.294B-1991.
History note: Anonymous loan since 1985
Purchased with the J.R.V. Smyth Fund
Height: 13.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1991-04-29) by Levine, Victor
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1800
CE
-
1810
CE
Chamberlain's Worcester porcelain was a hard-paste, unlike the steatitic soft-paste porcelain of the original Worcester facotry.
Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilt
Accession number: C.294A-1991
Primary reference Number: 37728
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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