IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 40483 accession number: EC.58-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain vase, painted in red, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown onglaze enamels, and gilt. The slender baluster vase stands on a stepped base with a ground footring, with a short neck and flared mouth. It is painted with a continuous scene of exotic birds in a park, with a large butterfly and moth above, and pendant floral garlands below, with a band of gilt rocaillerie around the shoulders. object type: Hard-paste porcelain vase, decorated with insects and exotic birds in polychrome enamels. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from The Radford Collection Sale, the Property of Mrs Radford, Lested Lodge, Well Walk, Hampstead, Sotheby's, 4th November 1943, lot 178, £44.00 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought from Sotheby's through the Leverton Harris Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40483 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds butterfly moth floral motifs park birds butterfly moth floral motifs park TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain painted in red, yellow, green, blue, purple and brown onglaze enamels, and gilt glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1768 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Plymouth Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.0 CITATIONS -------- Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain Godden's Guide to European Porcelain The Treasure Houses of Great Britain English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Locke Collection ---