Terms and conditions of use
Dragon vase
(mid 1880s)
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 63.0 × 31.2 × 30.0 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Leeds, Yorkshire, England
- Inscription
- impressed (inverted) (diagonally) in rim of base: 676
impressed (diagonally) in rim of base: BURMANTOFTS / FAIENCE - Accession Number
- 2002.396
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Dr Robert Wilson Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Robert Wilson, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2002
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Victor Kremer is known for his extravagant work in majolica (colourful lead-glazed earthenwares), in particular his designs for vases with modelled lizards and dragons. This double gourd-shaped vase is vividly modelled with a large scaly dragon, mouth agape as it encircles the vase. Mythical creatures were popular subjects in late nineteenth-century British art, the revival in interest much influenced by Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem ‘Jabberwocky’ (1871), referring to a mythical dragon-like creature.