Vase and cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Earthenware
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636372.1.2
Summary
One of nine vases, some octagonal and some hexagonal, blue and white Dutch tin glazed earthenware inverted baluster with covers and finials modelled as parrots - one(f) a dog finial - and splayed bases. Various landscape scenes with men, boats and buildings in rococo and floral cartouches-- e) and g) a pair,and b) and c) with putto carrying a basket of flowers, h) with a vase of flowers and j) a cover only with finial broken off - in Still Room store. Various marks; c) has a label inscribed indistinctly,'Delft vase. Bird's claw mark mentioned by Shaffers (?) the rest indecipherable. dated Nov (?) 1872. f) A label inscribed indistinctly 'Delft vase (illegible) of Mrs Anne Gronn-Turk 100-200 years old. Dec 10th 1872. h) has a label,partially destroyed,inscribed-- 'Delft Vase......years old. Boug.....Groom Dec 11th. All variously cracked and chipped.
Provenance
1944, gifted to the National Trust by Field Marshal Sir Archibald and Lady Montgomery Massingberd.