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Pair of covered vases

Manufacturer (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 Ceramics
Sub-classification
English Porcelain
Status
Not on view
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