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Vase
Made at: Worcester Manufactory (England)
English
about 1752-55
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
26.7 x 14.7 cm (10 1/2 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection
Accession Number1988.1048
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionHexagonal vase with stylized double dragon handles, decorated in soft enamel colors in one lower panel with a Chinese woman steated at a tea table and on an adjacent panel a Chinese boy, the other lower and upper panels sparsely decorated with a vase of flowers, scattered butterflies and insects, a root ornament, and flowers.
ProvenanceBy 1948, Henry Rissik Marshall (b. 1891 - d. 1959), Hampstead; Marshall sale, Sotheby and Co., London (January 27, 1953), lot 20; by 1958, Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz; 1988, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz. (Accession date: November 30, 1988)