Flask: C.8-1967

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Maker(s)

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Flask

Description

Soft-paste porcelain flask, painted with Oriental flowers in underglaze blue.

Soft-paste porcelain flask, painted underglaze in blue. The flask is of flattened circular pilgrim shape, with a narrow cylindrical neck. It is painted on one side with bamboo and peony in a fenced garden, the reverse with a tree peony growing from rockwork. Both sides are edged with a trellis-diaper border. The neck is painted with the initials I-B and the date 1778, a flowerhead on the reverse. Three stilt marks appear on the side of the body, and the mouth is stopped with a cork, sealed with a crest in red wax.

Notes

History note: F.A. Crisp Collection, sold Sotheby's, 14th February 1935, lot 74, £12 10s 0d.; G.F. Hotblack Collection, sold Sotheby's, 6th December 1955, lot 15, £31.

Legal notes

Given by Mrs F. Recordon

Measurements and weight

Height: 14.0 cm
Width: 21.1 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.