Box

England

1770-1800

  • Titles Box (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium enameled copper with gilt metal mounts
  • Dimensions 1 1/8 × 1 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (2.9 × 3.8 × 4.4 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Catherine H. Collins Collection, AFI.494.1998
  • Work Type box
  • Classification Containers

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Large squat Marsden's Art Ware vase of glazed and slip-decorated earthenware, of baluster shape with rolled lip, the body interior and underside covered with a beige glaze, the main exterior body covered with a teal-blue glaze and decorated in a design of leafy branches in brown and beige slip and clusters of oranges in a light teal slip with beige dots indicating a typical orange-peel pattern, the neck with a wide brown band above narrow beige bands.