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Vase
Ten-sided vase on a mounted circular base, the lower part arcaded with ten-gilded niches containing the Queen's Beasts on shallow plinths, each enamelled and gilded and holding a coat of arms; applied below the shoulders with shields decorated with emblems of the mother countries and seven commonwealth countries above identifying lables, together with the arms of the United Kingdom and of Wales in the centre; two lion masks and laurel pendants at the shoulders, all gilded; shallow stepped cover rising to a polychrome crown. On a ten-sided base of Australian black bean.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30172
Acquisition
Gift, 20/7/1954
Given by British Pottery Manufacturers
Measurements
Height
(cm): 54.6
Depth
(cm): 29.2
Height
(in): 21
Depth
(in): 11
Height
(cm): 11.5
Depth
(cm): 15.2
Height
(in): 4
Depth
(in): 6
h(cm) overall:64.7
h(cm)
Depth
(cm): 29.2
Height
(in): 25
Depth
(in): 11
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
printed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
bone china
Location
In store
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