Vase (one of a pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1761 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The deep crimson ground of this vase and its mate (64.101.505a, b) was a technical triumph of the Chelsea factory. It came to be called claret, after a description of such vases in Horace Walpole's 1774 catalogue of his collection at Strawberry Hill.
- Artist
- Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
- Date
- ca. 1761
- Medium
- Soft-paste porcelain
- Culture
- British, Chelsea
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
