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Vase
Vase, cream-coloured earthenware, urn-shaped body with spreading foot and concave neck, to either side of the body twin acanthus handles curve up over the neck, foliate festoons in relief depend from the handles; the interior and exterior surfaces of the vase marbled under the glaze with shades of brown in imitation of natural stone, the handles and moulded festoons left uncoloured and glazed. The original base of the base is missing, it stands on a replacement wooden base.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35816
Acquisition
Purchase, 1902
Measurements
Height
(cm): 25.9
diam
(cm): 13
Width
(cm): 16
Height
(in): 10
diam
(in): 5
Width
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-thrown
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
under-glaze colours
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
creamware
glaze
Location
Gallery 04 : Case 01
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