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Description: | inscription, painting, freehand in red, slightly worn, View in Switzerland
trademark, painting, in red, 'D' surmounted by crossed batons, with dots and crowns
Porcelain double-handed vase in classicising style, shaped like an amphora, decorated with gilt blue ground and enamel colours. Square base with gilt cable-pattern on blue ground between gilt bands on sides, on which is circular stepped foot with stem and knop, decorated with white, blue and gilt. Above this body of vase is circular and ovoid with projecting stepped shoulder, upswept neck and everted lip. Two ear-shaped handles diametrically opposite each other, attached to body with moulded, gilded satyr's head and to shoulder with moulded gilded volute with rosette within and with leaf moulded, gilded satyr's heads, is decorated on one side with blue ground and on other with octagonal panel with landscape in enamel colours of mountains, ruins and figures, described on base as in 'Switzerland'. This is surrounded by gilded border and decoration with palmettes and fronds. The neck above panel has similar gilded decoration.
Material: porcelain | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.decorativeart&design.2763 | Go to resource |
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