Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1796 - 1820; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, throwing, soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamel, with gilding, with moulded decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.688D-1991]
Description: Vase, part of a garniture de chemin?e. Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels, with gilding. Hexagonal baluster vase, with hexagonal flared neck and mouth rim, tapering to a deep hexagonal foot with recessed base. The shoulders are moulded with trailing leaves and vines, and two ground rats. It is painted on two sides with a basket of flowers tied with a ribbon on its tall, arched handle, beneath which is a hatched border and two hatched flower heads in iron-red, gilt and black, and a scroll border, and a hatched border on the foot.
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