Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Doccia Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Hard-past porcelain painted in polychrome enamels with flowers
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, pale orange, red, and puce enamels. The circular bowl has deep curved sides, moulded with lines sloping in opposite directions to form four petal shapes, two small S-shaped handles with a strap around the lower end, and stands on a footring. The domed cover is lightly gadrooned, and has a knob in the form of a pear on a stalk with a leaf. A flange on the underside fits inside the rim of the bowl. On each side of the bowl there are one large and one small spray of mixed flowers, and one side also a tiny yellow bud and two leaves. The handles have dark puce lines down the sides and a blue stroke down the back. Inside there is a dark puce floral spray. The cover has three sprays of flowers and one small sprig with a yellow bud. The pear knob is shaded in pale orange and yellow and its leaf is green. A dark puce line encircles the outer edge.
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 11.4 cm
Width: 15.3 cm
Place(s) associated
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Sesto Fiorentino
⪼ Tuscany
⪼ Italy
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1946-12)
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1765
CE
-
1770
CE
Note
This bowl was produced after the introduction of a new paste at Doccia in 1761. This was described as massa bastardo, and was glazed with an opaque white tin-glaze.
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue, green, yellow, pale orange, red, and puce)
Bowl
Diameter 12.2 cm
Materials used in production
Hard-paste porcelain
Tin-glaze
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, pale orange, red, and puce enamels
Glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 13.
- Location: On base of bowl
- Method of creation: Painted in puce
- Type: Mark
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: EC.28 & A-1946
Primary reference Number: 140414
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 23 May 2017
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
