Chelsea
(England 1744–1769)
- Title
- Vase
- Year
- circa 1762-1768
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
21.3 x 15.5 x 11.2 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.105
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The vase would originally have had a high-domed cover and probably formed the central element in a garniture of three pot-pourri vases. Scent would have emerged from holes in the buttercup-like flowers around the neck.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 59 (colour illus.). cat.no. 73
