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One solution was to cover the fireplace with a painted chimney-board, and another was to place a large vase in or in front of it. This vase would have been big enough to fill a fireplace. Smaller vases of this shape are shown on carved wooden stands in Thomas Chippendale's <i>Gentleman and Cabinet Makers Director</i> of 1754.<br><br><b>Design & Designing</b><br>The potter based the shape on a Chinese vase, but elongated it. Similar landscape decoration is found on Liverpool delftware vases, suggesting that the painter also decorated delftware (tin-glazed earthenware).<br><br><b>Making & Materials</b><br>This vase is a very ambitious production, and must have been difficult to throw and fire, especially as the porcelain industry in Britain was only about 15 years old at the time it was made. It was thrown on a wheel, and is about as large as it is physically possible to throw a pot in a single piece, as the internal height is about the length of a person's arm. (Larger pots can be made, but these would have to be thrown in sections and then assembled.)","physicalDescription":"Both vase and cover are decorated in dark underglaze blue in the Chinese style with a continuous landscape, with hunting, shooting and fishing scenes as well as pavillions and grottoes. The blued glaze has run in places producing blue streaks and leaving one area unglazed.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Richard Chaffers Factory","id":"A1504"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"AAT25230"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painting (image-making)","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Vases","id":"THES48879"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"}],"styles":[{"text":"Chinoiserie","id":"AAT21167"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AM8300","2006AM8298","2006AM8297"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"52D (VA)","id":"THES49257"},"free":"","case":"PL5","shelf":"","box":"12"},{"current":{"text":"52D (VA)","id":"THES49257"},"free":"","case":"PL5","shelf":"","box":"12"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}],[{"text":"Cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Liverpool","id":"x30239"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1758-1762","earliest":"1753-01-01","latest":"1762-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"83","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"31.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions from Registered Description (should be checked).\r\nDimensions checked: Registered Description; 01/01/1998 by KN","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Made at the factory of Richard Chaffers, Liverpool","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Soft-paste porcelain vase and cover, painted with Chinese style decoration in underglaze blue. British (Liverpool), ca.1758-1762. Probably made by Richard Chaffer's factory at Shaw's Brow","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hillis, Maurice. <u>Liverpool Porcelain, 1756-1804.</u> 2011, pl. 5.181, where dated ca. 1758-62"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"landscapes (representations)","id":"AAT15636"},{"text":"pavilions (garden structures)","id":"AAT6819"},{"text":"grottoes","id":"AAT6807"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nThe painter loosely based the landscape with Chinese figures and pavilions on the decoration of Chinese porcelain. The shape is also based on a Chinese one, but it is strangely elongated. The vase is exceptionally tall. It was probably used to decorate a fireplace during the summer.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["C.8-1974","C.8A-1974"],"accessionNumberNum":"8","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1974,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Vase","Cover"],"assets":["2019LR1094","2019LR0125","2019LP9369","2019LP6768","2019LP2819","2019LR6630","2019LR6405","2019LR5578","2019LR5298","2019LU0646","2019LV4887"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-25","recordCreationDate":"1998-06-23","availableToBook":false}}