vase; garniture

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Object Type: vase; garniture
Museum number: 1887,0307,V.43
Description: Two beaker vases with flared mouth; porcelain; bulbous stems; painted with "The Telephone Box" and border pattern in underglaze-blue; a single Chinese figure on each side in panels, with horizontal borders of floral trellis pattern; marked. Additional decoration framing the single figures for Vase 1 is a variation of border pattern 28 arranged vertically and, for Vase 2 border pattern 24A with groups of flowers top and bottom; mark on both.
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Production date: 1770
Production place: Factory in: Worcester
Materials
Technique: painted; glazed; underglazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 119 millimetres; Diameter: 130 millimetres; Height: 204 millimetres (Large vase); Height: 201 millimetres (Small vase); Weight: 462 grammes; Weight: 682 grammes
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Curator's comments: Part of garniture, usually of 5 pieces, including three covered baluster vases.
Bibliographic references: Hobson 1905 / Catalogue of the collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum. (V43); Branyan, French & Sandon 1989 / Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790, an Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Patterns ("The Telephone Box", I.A.8, p.51) (Main Pattern)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2012 22 Jun-2013 6 Jan, Beijing, National Museum of China, ‘Passion for Porcelain’ (smaller vase only) 2007 Mar-June, Beijing, Palace Museum, Britain meets the World
Condition: Larger vase extensively repaired
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1887,0307,V.43
Conservation: Treatment: 01 May 2011; Treatment: 10 Apr 2006

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