Factory: Rockingham China Works
Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted in polychrome enamels. Cartouches painted with flowers reserved on a green ground.
History note: Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA, Trinity College, Cambridge
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Height: 11 in
Width: 6 in
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.
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
19th century
Production date:
circa
AD 1825
Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, gilded and painted in polychrome enamels
Accession number: C.159-1918
Primary reference Number: 40565
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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