Factory:
Derby Porcelain Manufactory
Painter:
Brewer, John
Gilder:
Langdon, William
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale pink ground, a camp scene painted in polychrome enamels, and gilding.
Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a pale pink ground, painting in pale blue, geen, yellow, pale red, pale brown and grey enamels, and gilded. Cylindrical with an ear-shaped handle, and slightly recessed base. On the front there is an oval camp scene with five tents and groups of figures in the foreground, surrounded by a border of stylized gold flower heads flanked by gold bands. The rest of the exterior is pink with a gold line round the top and bottom. Inside the white interior there is a border of wavy line with spots above and below. The handled is striped in gold with reserved white cross banding.
History note: Wallace Elliot; sold Sotheby’s, 24-25 May 1938, Fine Old English Pottery and Porcelain, lot 291
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 7.3 cm
Width: 9.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1938-05-20) by Sotheby's
18th Century, Late#
George III
Circa
1795
CE
-
1800
CE
The painting was attributed to Robert Brewer, who worked at Derby after 1797 but is more likely to be by John Brwer (1764-1816), who worked at the factory from 1793 and later became a drawing master (c. 1808-15). See documentation.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( polychrome)
gold
Rim
Diameter 7.2 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with a pale pink ground, painting inpale blue, geen, yellow, pale red, pale brown and grey enamels, and gilded
Accession number: EC.26-1938
Primary reference Number: 137194
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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