Bottle
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Porcelain
DATES
ca. 1880
DIMENSIONS
Other: 11 1/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (28.3 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm)
MARKINGS
Underside of base. Impressed: company logo / "T10"/871"; "P17" hand-painted in blue; ["C and C"] [combined], hand painted in red-orange. White rectangular adhesive paper label : "6660"
ACCESSION NUMBER
1999.152.292
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Ivory-bodied molded bottle with spherical body raised on circular gilded foot with band of low relief florets; body is asymmetrically painted with irises, ducks in flight on recto and bats in flight on verso, naturalistically depicted in blue, red, purple and green, all with gold highlights. Attenuated trumpet shaped neck emerges from body from band of low-relief florets and rises to a knop with alternating bands of vertical lines and low-relief arabesque within gilded ogee arches on neck above and below, where two opposed gilded dolphin-shaped handles meet the neck, painted gray with reticulated floret and gold trim. Gilded lip. Underneath, pieces of brown felt are adhered to rim of base.
Condition: good.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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