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vase

Object NameVase with Chinoiserie Decoration

Made FromLead Glass

Date1760-1780

Place MadeEngland, probably South Staffordshire

TechniqueBlown, enameled

SizeOverall H: 18.7 cm; Shoulder Diam: 10.8 cm; Rim Diam: 5.1 cm; Base Diam: 5.7 cm

Accession Number60.2.2

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

In Sparkling Company: Glass and the Costs of Social Life in Britain during the 1700s

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Physical DescriptionVase with Chinoiserie Decoration. Opaque white lead glass; blown and enameled. Decreasing in diameter towards concave base with very rough pontil mark, walls spread to rounded shoulder curving to very short cylindrical rudimentary neck; on the obverse of the vase a multicolored "panel" with a tree trunk on which colorful flowers, branches and grass emerge, on one side a male pheasant-like bird turned to the left and perched, three similar birds occupy the space on the reverse, all four having very long orange-brown tails; the enamel is very thin and lightly applied with orange-brown, purple-pink, blue and light green and yellow as predominant colors. On the base three paper labels: "Bristol glass. Very rare and beautiful example of this make. A. Trapnell". The second label has a number "704". The third label is round and shows a panther-like animal in red turned to the left with a chain, surmounted by the word "BRISTOL", below the number written in ink "13".
Provenance

Former Collection Cecil Davis - 1960-01-13

Former Collection C. W. Dyson Perrins

Former Collection A. Trapnell