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Vase
Vase, buff coloured earthenware, baluster form with spreading foot, bulbous shoulder and short cylindrical neck; covered all over with a slightly pink-tinged white tin-glaze which has worn off around the foot-rim and lip-rim, decorated in blue with to the front of the body an oval panel painted with half-length figures of a man and a woman with below the inscription "Pr. Anna Pr. W.C.H.F. / 1747", the panel surrounded by scrolling stylized foliage, to the other side of the body a bird carrying a branch, a border of spirals around the lower body, blue lines around the foot and the neck. The neck broken and repaired.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36048
Creation/Production
Unknown
Date: 1747 ca
Acquisition
Purchase, 1903
Measurements
Height
(cm): 19.2
diam
(cm): 13.7
Height
(in): 7
diam
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
tin-glazed
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
in-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
Material
tin-glazed earthenware
Location
In store
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