Worcester-style Porcelain Vase with Floral Panels and Gilt Handles
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- Socle - The short plinth, usually cylindrical, that serves as a pedestal for a sculpture or vase
- Caryatid - A Greek term that in architecture applies to a carved or cast female figures that acts as a column or pillar, supporting an entablature on her head.
In decorative arts , in furniture of the Renaissance and Classical Revival periods. Male figures are known as Atlantes.
Carved figures are rare on Australian furniture until the later 19th century, Australian craftsmen generally preferring to adopt the designs of the pattern books to rather more simple forms, such as scrolls or columns.
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Worcester (England), item types
- other items 556
- vases 92
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