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Vase

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Porcelain
  • Place Made: Worcester, England
  • DATES ca. 1895
    DIMENSIONS 9 1/4 x 7 x 2 3/4 in. (23.5 x 17.8 x 7 cm)  (show scale)
    ACCESSION NUMBER 1999.152.257
    CREDIT LINE Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Pilgrim bottle dark blue glazed vase with gilt decoration. Dark blue pilgrim vase with short neck and at shoulders, mirrored entwined snake handles resting on the top of a female mask with drapery, snake scales and eyes in gold and gold highlights to female mask; main body with gilt decoration of a dragon fly in flight and flowers (catkins), on reverse, smaller floral spray in gilt. The whole on four vertical and squared feet with a raised 'H' design, highlighted in gold paint on the feet.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Grainger and Co.. Vase, ca. 1895. Porcelain, 9 1/4 x 7 x 2 3/4 in. (23.5 x 17.8 x 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.257. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1999.152.257_view1.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.1999.152.257_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
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    Grainger and Co.. <em>Vase</em>, ca. 1895. Porcelain, 9 1/4 x 7 x 2 3/4 in. (23.5 x 17.8 x 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.257. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1999.152.257_view1.jpg)