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Vase, soft-paste porcelain, standing on a square base, tapering oviform body with spreading short pedestal foot and flaring neck, to either side of the body twin vertical winged caryatid handles; the upper body of the vase covered with a green ground against which is reserved to the front of the vase an irregular octagonal panel painted in polychrome enamels with a rural scene showing the figure of a young girl picking mushrooms with a cottage and trees in the background, the panel enclosed by a gilt border, the foot of the vase covered with a green ground, the base, the foot-rim, the lower body of the vase, the neck, the interior lip-rim and the lower section and wings of the handle painted gilt.
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Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 34969
Creation/Production
Herculaneum, Liverpool
Date: 1815 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 23/2/1987
Measurements
Height
(cm): 24.2
diam
(cm): 9.5
Width
(cm): 13.8
Height
(in): 9
diam
(in): 3
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
In store
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