Vase with coat of arms of the Szapáry family

Unknown porcelain manufactory

In the mid-19th century

The vase with the coat of arms of the Szapáry family can be seen at the Permanent Exhibition of Murska Sobota Prekmurje Museum. In 1783 Medici ordered a huge vase from the porcelain manufacture in Sèvres. It was then copied by other porcelain manufactures – it was representative, and served as ornaments, most often bearing a family coat of arms. The vase was molded on a potter's wheel. Painted, glazed and gilded porcelain.

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Materials and techniques: porcelain
Name of site: Murska Sobota
Other settlement names: Olsnitz, Muraszombat, Sobota
Name of institution or personage holding object; identification number of object: Pomurski muzej Murska Sobota; 510:MUS;UZ-0001698
Web page: http://www.pomurski-muzej.si/razstave/stalna-razstava/gradovi-in-dvorci
File name: PMMS_075_A_0013
Resolution: 300 dpi
Restrictions on use: Brez omejitev
Date of documentation: 2019-11-14
Person documenting: Tadeja Andrejek

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