Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
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
Place(s) associated
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Lowestoft
⪼ Suffolk
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1967)
by
Recordon, F., Mrs
Dating
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1778
Components of the work
Stopper
composed of
cork (bark)
Crest
composed of
wax
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing (coating)
Inscription or legends present
- Text: IB
- Location: On neck
- Method of creation: Painted
- Text: 1778
- Location: On neck
- Method of creation: Painted
- Type: Date
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.8-1967
Primary reference Number: 38437
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015
Last processed: Thursday 3 August 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
