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Description: | Urn, or Chimney Piece Vase, painted in enamel colours. The ovoid body of the urn is painted in powder blue enamel, with white enamel reserves enclosed with decoative gilt scrolls and exotic birds. One reserve is painted with a version of Clytie and Helois after an engraving by Ravenet, while the other is painted to show Venus and Adonis. The body is raised on a waisted socle of powder blue enamel with gilt decoration, and surmounted with a conical finial.
Urn, or Chimney Piece Vase, painted in enamel colours with versions of Clytie and Helois, and Venus and Adonis. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Manufacturing industry Black Country Decorative arts Metalworking industries Enamels Bilston Georgian period | Temporal: | 1775
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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