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Vase

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Porcelain, gilding
  • Place Made: Worcester, England
  • DATES 1872
    DIMENSIONS 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (26 x 16.5 x 10.8 cm)  (show scale)
    MARKINGS On bottom, transfer printed in purple, usual Royal Wooster company logo. Below logo, printed number 72. Beside that, molded applied company logo.
    ACCESSION NUMBER 2007.62.19
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Paul F. Walter
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Ivory rhombohedron-shaped vase with tall concave neck, and slightly raised and undulating bracket foot. Corners of body articulated at top and bottom with molded wave-like ribbons. Vertical rectangular gilt framed panels with molded, painted, and gilt decoration on the front panels with four frogs on the ground below a large snake hanging from a tree with blooming tree branches and on the obverse with an identical blooming tree. Base comprised of illusionistically molded and painted bands in red and brown with gilding to resemble bronze mount. Gilded rim.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION James Hadley (British, 1837-1903). Vase, 1872. Porcelain, gilding, 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (26 x 16.5 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2007.62.19. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2007.62.19.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.2007.62.19.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2012
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    James Hadley (British, 1837-1903). <em>Vase</em>, 1872. Porcelain, gilding, 10 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (26 x 16.5 x 10.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2007.62.19. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2007.62.19.jpg)