Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
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.
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.
Given by Mrs F. Recordon
Height: 14.0 cm
Width: 21.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1967) by Recordon, F., Mrs
18th Century, third quarter
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1778
Stopper
composed of
cork (bark)
Crest
composed of
wax
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.8-1967
Primary reference Number: 38437
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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