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Many porcelains with either blank or minimally decorated surfaces were shipped to Europe for further patterning at specialist workshops. This highly-coloured enamelling in appropriately European taste added to their value. In many cases the so-called 'clobbered' designs were entirely European in character, but in this case the London enamellers chose to copy Chinese designs.<br><br><b>Time</b><br>The clear-glazed porcelain body of this vase was made at kilns in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province in southern central China. The moulded flower patterns and minimal underglaze blue-painted design were part of the original manufacture of between 1740 and 1760. After being shipped to Europe, the vase was redecorated with coloured enamels in a London workshop, possibly that of James Giles (1718-1780), between 1752 and 1766.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The vase is made of very fine soft-paste porcelain that was the inspiration for European porcelain production.  Chinese soft-paste is not the same as European soft-paste. It has a higher than usual proportion of kaolin clay in the china clay / china stone body composition. It was used to produce fine, smooth wares, but was not suited to the manufacture of large vessels.","physicalDescription":"Vase of soft=paste porcelain, pear-shaped with white ground. Decorated in enamlel colours with flowers and butterflies. 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Specialist decorating workshops bought undecorated English and Chinese wares for enamelling. Since painted enamels were usually applied to the surface of glazed ware, they could be added after the piece was manufactured.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.16-1962"],"accessionNumberNum":"16","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1962,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LP8678","2019LR5072","2019LU6935"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"2003-03-27","availableToBook":false}}