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The vase was probably purely ornamental and intended to be displayed on a mantelpiece or other domestic furnishing. A Derby auction catalogue of 1773 states that 'Antique' vases were 'particularly adapted for the Decoration of Chimney Pieces, Cabinets, Toilets. &c.' This particular vase, however, is too large for a glazed cabinet or lady's dressing table.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>The market for vases in the 'antique' style grew rapidly in the late 1760s, as the Neo-classical style gained ground. The demand for them was so great that, in addition to copying genuine Greek and Roman antiquities, manufacturers copied vase designs, usually prints, of the 16th to 18th centuries. This vase reproduces one that the 16th-century Italian artist Polidoro da Caravaggio painted on the facade of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome in the 1520s. Derby's immediate source for the design was probably a print by Giovan Battista Galestruzzi (born 1618; died after 1681). Engravings after 'Polydoro' are listed in an inventory of prints owned by the Derby factory in 1791. Polidoro's fantastic vase designs were also copied by the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), who used them as background devices in his portraits.","physicalDescription":"Vase of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels, and with an oviform body decorated round the shoulder on each side with a grotesque mask flanked by lions above a band of conventional ornament below which are rosettes and festoons of foliage, with two loop handles in the form of a dolphin issuing from a lion's leg which rests on a sheep's head, and the upper part and the short expanding neck are spirally fluted, and a high foot is decorated with acanthus-foliage, supported on a square plinth, and decorated in relief and reserved in white on a turquoise-blue ground.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Derby Porcelain factory","id":"A9087"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AT6269","2006AF5996"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"118D","id":"THES49229"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":"8"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Derby","id":"x31922"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1773-1774","earliest":"1773-01-01","latest":"1774-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"40","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"22.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mrs Bull, Bath, for £20 shillings in October 1884","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Vase of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels, and with an oviform body and two loop handles in the form of a dolphin issuing from a lion's leg which rests on a sheep's head, made by Derby Porcelain factory, Derby, 1773-1774.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clifford, Timothy. Polidoro and English Design. <u>Connoisseur</u>. August 1976, vol. 192. pp. 282-291."}],"production":"The design is taken from a print by G.B. Galestruzzi, published in 1658 and based on Decoration by Polidoro da Caravaggio (born in Bergamo, Italy, 1490, died after 1535)","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"dolphin (animal)","id":"x30140"},{"text":"lion's paw feet","id":"AAT40654"},{"text":"sheep","id":"x30093"},{"text":"foliage","id":"x42645"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["414:437-1885"],"accessionNumberNum":"414","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1885,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Schreiber number","id":"THES50279"},"number":"Sch. 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