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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Bottle Vase, “Kakiemon” Famille-Verte Pattern
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Bottle Vase, “Kakiemon” Famille-Verte Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1754-56
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.120.1
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 3
DescriptionThis is one of an Assembled Pair of Early Worcester Kakiemon Hexagonal Bottle Vases. Each painted on the front in iron-red, blue, turquoise, yellow and black with bamboo and prunus growing behind two 'banded hedges,' the reverse with a flowering plant between pairs of small blossoms, and the rim with two blue-centered rose demi-flowerheads alternating with iron-red whorls.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1754-56
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1753-54
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1778-80
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1754-55
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1757-60