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Vase

Vase off gourd shaped form with tall cylindrical neck. Decorated around the centre with a broad band edged on either side with a thin blue band, which in turn is edged in black. The broad band is decorated with shells, grotesque mask heads gushing water from their mouths, which falls into shell shaped bowls; on either side an amorino and acanthus leaf scrollwork. The neck is similarly decorated.
Size: Height: 32 cm.

Artist / Maker: Gien Earthenware

Place: Gien

Object Type: vase

Actual Date: c. 1870

Century: 19th century

Material: Earthenware

Museum Accession Number: Founders/X.4140