IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140417 accession number: EC.29-1942 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 13 October 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and glazed; outside the factory diamond-point engraved and coloured in black. The circular dish has a six-sided wavy edge, a sloping rim, deep curved sides, slightly lobed internally, and stands on a circular footrim. The sloping rim is moulded in relief with six shaped areas of different basket-work patterns, one with a shell in the centre by the edge, two with anthemion, and three with a spray of small flowers. The well is decorated on the left with a vase of foliage standing on a pedestal with a bird flying above, and a butterfly jhovering over plants to the right. On the right, there is a square pedestal to the left of a tree on which a bird perches, while another flies from the centre towards it. The pedestal is inscribed 'Bush/Cano S. . . /1765', and has a sapling and grass growin on its top. object type: hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and outside the factory, diamond-point engraved and coloured in black title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s, London, 26 June 1942, Catalogue of Glass Porcelain, Pottery and Italian Majolica .. ., ot 73; one of two sold for £22 to H E Backer, Hatherley Court, Hatherley Grove, W2, from whom purchased on 17 July 1942 for £14 by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140417 TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and fired; outside the factory diamond-point engraved and coloured in black press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Meissen Porcelain Factory maker: August Ernst von dem DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.3 CITATIONS -------- Der Porzellanmaler August O.E. von dem Busch 1704-1779 European Ceramic Art Important Continental Ceramics, 1 December 1986 Meissener Porzellan des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts : Bestandskatalog der Sammlung des Grassimuseums Leipzig/Museum für Kunsthandwerk ---