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Ovoid Vase

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions8 in. (20.3 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.2

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DescriptionThis is a 'Telephone Box' Pattern Ovoid Vase. Painted in underglaze-blue on the front with two Chinese ladies and a dog and on the reverse with a lady and boy within scroll-edged panels divided by floral sprays beneath a border of diaper and floral panels around the shoulder; later decorated on the front and reverse with a pink ground, the sides with a pale iron-red ground, the waisted neck and foot washed in pale turquoise, and the whole picked out in gilding.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II Published ReferencesLawrence Branyan, Neal French and John Sandon, _Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790_ (London: Barrie & Jenkins, Ltd., 1989), 51, pattern I.A.8.