Vase (one of a pair)
Factory Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory British
Not on view
The deep crimson ground of this vase and its mate (64.101.504a, b) was a technical triumph of the Chelsea factory. It came to be called claret, after a description of such vases in Horace Walpole's 1774 catalogue of his collection at Strawberry Hill.
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