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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 636
The designer of this vase and the stand below was a Huguenot who fled to Holland in 1685. He was soon working for the stadhouder William of Orange, and his wife the princess Mary Stuart who became co-sovereigns of the United Kingdom in 1688. One of Marot's first commissions fro Queen Mary was to design a series of large, free-standing obelisks and vases on stands for a hall in the Queen's apartments in the palace of Hampton Court. Supplied with numerous nozzles to receive flowers and decorated in blue and white, this program of ceramic interior decoration expressed not only the required formality for a Queen's reception room but also Mary's love of gardens and for blue and white porcelain. This vase was almost certainly part of that commission.
Marking: AK (monogram)
Joseph Addison McLeod ; [ sale, Sotheby's, London , November 9, 1934, lot 55 ] ; [ sale no. LN4416, Sotheby's, London , June 15, 1994, lot 32 ]
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