pot pourri vase
Summary
Triangular pot pourri vase tapering toward base, with three fluted pillars at corners forming bracket feet. Concave triangular plinth with chamfered corners and fluted borders to side. Body moulded with fluted border beneath rim and three female heads surmounting corner pillars. Domed triangular cover with pierced scale pattern to sides, separated by three narrow fluted panels emerging from flared triangular pierced finial. Dark brown earthenware body, coated with metallic silver lustre.
Display Label
Material Look-alikes Nature and science provide designers and makers with a vast choice of possible materials from curious organics to modern synthetics. In the display case to your left some of the objects are made from materials deliberately disguised to look like others. Can you spot the impostors? The answers are on the labels or in the folder below.
Object Name
pot pourri vase
Date Created
c.1820
Dimensions
without cover: 17cm
with cover: 20.8cm
accession number
1923.956
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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