Vase and Cover
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
1895
DIMENSIONS
11 x 5 3/4 x 5 1/8 in. (27.9 x 14.6 x 13 cm)
MARKINGS
Vase and cover, white-bodied porcelain, the body ovoid shaped; in the Rococo style, a painted scene of putti and dancing dog within a gilt asymmetrical cartouche, against a pink ground scattered with gilt snowflakes, the reverse painted with a spray of polychrome flowers; the scrolled handles attached to shoulder; the pink-ground cylindrical neck flared at mouth; raised on a gilt-rimmed circular foot. The pink-ground cover enriched with gilt, its white finial formed as a cluster of leaves.
ACCESSION NUMBER
1999.152.69a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Vase and cover, white-bodied porcelain, the body ovoid shaped; in the Rococo style, a painted scene of putti and dancing dog within a gilt asymmetrical cartouche, against a pink ground scattered with gilt snowflakes, the reverse painted with a spray of polychrome flowers; the scrolled handles attached to shoulder; the pink-ground cylindrical neck flared at mouth; raised on a gilt-rimmed circular foot. The pink-ground cover enriched with gilt, its white finial formed as a cluster of leaves.
Condition: Very good. Finial may be restruck.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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