Factory: Bristol Porcelain Manufactory
Hard-paste porcelain dish, painted with flowers and festoons in polychrome enamels, and gilt.
Hard-paste porcelain dish, painted in polychrome enamels, and gilt. The quatrelobed oval dish stands on a wedge-shaped footring, with a further low serpentine support in the centre of the base. It is painted with a continuous wavy festoon of flowers looped over a border of criss-crossed pink and blue ribbons interspersed with gilt florettes, the centre with a spray of a rose, auriculas and other flowers, and the rim with a gilt dentil border.
History note: From the Glaisher Collection (?)
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 3 cm
Height: 1 3/8 in
Width: 20.5 cm
Width: 8 1/8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-10-14) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1775
CE
-
1777
CE
The decoration, particularly the border, is inspired by Sèvres porcelain of the 1760s.
Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome) gold
Glazing (coating) : Hard-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated overglaze with flowers and festoons in polychrome enamels and gilt
Inscription present: a cross
Inscription present: script
Accession number: C.150-1932
Primary reference Number: 131162
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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