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Flower pot and cover
Flower pot, hard-paste porcelain, cylindrical body with slightly rounded spreading foot-rim, a raised ridge around the lower body and two incised lines around the upper body, inside the top of the pot fits a cover with nine circular perforations arranged in a circular pattern; finely painted in polychrome enamels with around the exterior body of the flower pot a large spray and several smaller scattered sprigs of naturalistic flowers, gilt bands around the lower body and exterior lip-rim of the flower por and the rim of the cover, the gilt to the rim of the cover slightly worn.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35576
Creation/Production
Ansbach State Factory
Date: 18th century (late)
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11
diam
(cm): 9.4
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 3
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
hard-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
glaze
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case J
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