Pair of covered vases
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
(English, founded 1751)
CultureEnglish
Datec.1768
MediumSteatitic (soapstone) soft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamels
DimensionsOverall: 30 × 12 × 12 cm (11 13/16 × 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
MarkingsBlue fretted square
DescriptionPainted in the Kakiemon palette with bamboo and flowering shrubs below insects within gilt scroll cartouches on turquoise-ground diaper-pattern sections below richly-patterned sections to the shoulders divided by vertical blue bands reserved with mons and gilt with cell, fret and scroll and dot-pattern bands
Credit LineGift of William B.G. Humphries
Object numberG23.8.189.1a-b,.2a-b
Classifications
European CeramicsSub-classification
English PorcelainStatus
Not on view
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1745-1747
Object number: G83.1.653.1 -2
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1740-1745; decorated and possibly made in the nineteenth or twentieth century
Object number: G83.1.943.1-2
Artist / Maker: Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
c.1768-1775
Object number: G05.18.7a-b
Artist / Maker: Worcester Porcelain Manufactory
c.1770-1775
Object number: G23.8.82a-b
Artist / Maker: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
c.1730
Object number: G83.1.603.1a-b -2a-b
