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Bottle vase, soft-paste porcelain, flat base, globular body tapering to a narrow cylindrical neck that flares and thickens slightly at the rim; painted in greyish blue under the glaze with a flowering peony and around its stem grass and three smaller flowers. Tiny specks and bubbles in the glaze, which has a pale greyish tone.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36249
Creation/Production
Limehouse porcelain manufactory
Date: 1746-1748
Acquisition
Purchase, 18/4/2002
Measurements
Height
(cm): 11
diam
(cm): 6.6
Height
(in): 4
diam
(in): 2
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
underglaze blue
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
glaze
Location
Gallery 07A South
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