Urn
Barr, Flight and Barr
Category
Ceramics
Date
1804 - 1807
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamel colours and gilding
Measurements
114 x 128 mm; 92 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Worcester
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 353349.3
Summary
Urn-shaped vase with gilt rim and base on grey-marbled ground, with two angular gilt handles. Landscape view within gilt panel. Marked on base 'View on Loch Fyne, Scotland'. Depicts view across loch, bridge in distance with hills with two figures in foreground. The named view is taken directly from aquatints in Reverend William Gilpin’s (1724-1804), Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland, Vols. I & II, London, 1792: ‘View of Loch-Fyne—bridge over the Aray—mount Doniquaik’, plate facing page 185. Part of a five-piece Barr, Flight and Barr-factory ‘garniture de cheminée’, c.1804–7, Worcester, en suite with NT 353348 and NT 3533471.
Provenance
Part of the Lothian Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust by Philip, 11th Marquess of Lothian (1882-1940).
Marks and inscriptions
Base: View on Loch Fyne, Scotland
Makers and roles
Barr, Flight and Barr, porcelain manufacturer