Vase
Category
Metalwork
Date
circa 1810
Materials
Tole and ormolu
Measurements
475 x 120 x 120 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608546.1
Summary
One of a pair of French navy tole vases with a slender body with everted rim. The vases are fitted with ormolu mounts around the rim and base. The vases have two side handles with ormolu swan's head terminals. The vase is raised on a square tole plinth decorated with an ormolu leaf border. The vases were manufactured in France, circa 1810. Since 1994 when they were catalogued the vases have been painted black and turned into the bases of lamps with semi-circular glass shades that are used in the Drawing Room on a side table.
Provenance
Attingham collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).