vase
- Museum number
- 1913,1220.152
- Description
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Pair of vases; porcelain; bottle-shaped with contracted neck and slightly spreading mouth, sixfoil elevation; two rococo scroll handles; painted in colours with gilding; sides with three upright panels with pseudo-Chinese figures in garden setting; remaining sides and spaces painted with gilt sprays, insects, trellis designs and borders over streaky blue ground of milky appearance; three stand-marks on base.
- Production date
- 1759-1769 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6 inches (with handles)
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Height: 10.50 inches
- Curator's comments
- This pair of vases, of hexafoil section with applied foliate scroll arms, is a Chelsea design made around 1761, recorded in an auction catalogue of that year as a 'row-wagon', and discussed in J.V.G. Mallet in 'Chelsea Gold Anchor Vases, I: The Forms', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, vol. 17, no. 1, 1999, fig. 16.
It is painted with Chinoiserie figures, inspired by François Boucher and disseminated through prints by Huquier in the 1740s and the London-born John Ingram. The figure of the woman in Chinese costume holding a large vase is after a print, entitled 'La Jardiniere Chinoise', after Boucher, engraved by Ingram (act. 1721-1763), published in Paris, c. 1741-1763. The same image appears on the central vase of a three-piece set attributed to Chelsea, c. 1760, along with two different scenes on the others, both after Ingram, 'La Maitresse du Jardin' and La Patée du Petit Chien', in the Victoria and Albert Museum c.5-7-1939.
The base is said to have three patch marks, which if correct suggests the piece was made at Derby, using Chelsea molds after 1770, and probably decorated at their Chelsea decorating studio.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1913,1220.152