Vase (one of a pair), ca. 1761, British, Chelsea, Soft-paste porcelain, H. 9 1/2 in. ( cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The deep

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Vase (one of a pair), ca. 1761, British, Chelsea, Soft-paste porcelain, H. 9 1/2 in. ( cm.), Ceramics-Porcelain, The deep crimson ground of this vase and its mate 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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