Worcester tea bowl with a Japanese pattern

An image of Tea bowl and saucer. Worcester Porcelain Factory. The circular tea bowl and saucer have rounded sides, on low footrings. The tea bowl is painted with Japan pattern of alternate sprays of chrysanthemum and flowering prunus, separated by four vertical orange panels, gilt with trelliswork. The interior has a central chrysanthemum head mons; the saucer is painted en suite, with two insects concealing contemporary flaws. Soft-paste porcelain, painted in red, orange, blue, turquoise and green enamels and gilt, height, tea bowl, 4.8 cm, diameter, tea bowl, 7.5 cm, height, saucer, 3.0 cm, diameter, saucer, 12.5 cm, circa 1770. Production Note: This pattern is also found on Worcester porcelain decorated in London, probably in the atelier of James Giles. See no. C.7 & A-1918.

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Tea bowl and saucer. Worcester Porcelain Factory. The circular tea bowl and saucer have rounded sides, on low footrings. The tea bowl is painted with Japan pattern of alternate sprays of chrysanthemum and flowering prunus, separated by four vertical orange panels, gilt with trelliswork. The interior has a central chrysanthemum head mons; the saucer is painted en suite, with two insects concealing contemporary flaws. Soft-paste porcelain, painted in red, orange, blue, turquoise and green enamels and gilt, height, tea bowl, 4.8 cm, diameter, tea bowl, 7.5 cm, height, saucer, 3.0 cm, diameter, saucer, 12.5 cm, circa 1770. Production Note: This pattern is also found on Worcester porcelain decorated in London, probably in the atelier of James Giles. See no. C.7 & A-1918.

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Accession Number: C.93 & A-1933
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 783 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 459.03kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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