Vase with cover
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Height: 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
British, Chelsea-Derby
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914
Accession Number
14.58.67a, b
Tags
About the Artist
Derby Porcelain Manufactory|Zachariah Boreman|Robert Askew|Angelica Kauffmann · 1751–1785
The Derby Porcelain Manufactory stands as one of the foundational institutions of British ceramic art, producing some of the finest figures and tablewares made in England during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its origins can be traced to the work of André Planché, a Huguenot immigrant from Saxony who settled in Derby around 1745 and began producing soft-paste porcelain figures and ...