Vase with "lily pattern" (one of a pair)

Vase with "lily pattern" (one of a pair) by Worcester factory

Medium

Bone china

Dimensions

confirmed: 9 1/2 × 5 1/8 × 4 11/16 in., 1.4 lb. (24.1 × 13 × 11.9 cm, 650g)

Classification

Ceramics-Porcelain

Culture

British, Worcester

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017

Accession Number

2018.62.75

About the Artist

Worcester factory · 17512008

The Worcester porcelain factory, established in 1751 in Worcester, England, by physician Dr. John Wall and apothecary William Davis along with 14 partners, marked the birth of one of Britain's most enduring ceramic enterprises. Investing £4,500 at Warmstry House on the River Severn, the founders drew on contacts with the Bristol porcelain manufactory to develop a novel soft-paste porcelain using s...

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