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Vase, with cover
Vase, earthenware, standing on a square base, urn-shaped body with spreading short pedestal foot and cylindrical neck, to either side of the neck twin ring and scroll handles resting on moulded masks at the lower terminals, high domed cover with a nipple shaped finial to the top of the cover; the vase covered with an underglaze blue ground at the foot, the middle of the body, the neck, the handles and the cover, and a yellow ground at the lower body and the shoulder, the shoulder painted in sepia and white with a pattern of foliage, flower heads and arabesques, the base painted black. The foliage of the cover chipped.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35022
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 23.3
diam
(cm): 11
Width
(cm): 15
Height
(cm): 9
diam
(in): 4
Width
(in): 5
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
enamel
glaze
Location
In store
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