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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Vase, part of a garniture, pearl-glazed earthenware, glazed base, Chinese beaker form, a cylindrical body with flared foot and rim, decorated in the Chinese style: all over ground pattern of underglaze blue and gilt outline scales, the centre of each scale painted with an iron red motif; the front of the vase reserved with a blue and gilt scrolled-edged cartouche painted in green, yellow, red brown and pink with with a Chinoiserie scene of two men, one (right), in brown, holding a yellow parasol over a figure in red pink and yellow seated on a bank; underglaze blue and gilt cartouche to the reverse frilled at either end, painted in iron red and gilt with a peony; gilt rim and line above foot; iron-red border pattern below rim and around foot of a chain of ovals on a hatched ground within narrow lines.
These are the only known examples of oriental figure decoration attributed to the ceramic painter Thomas Pardoe. They are possibly part of a larger garniture of five vases and may have originally had covers.
