Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and transfer-printed in blue with the ‘Pine Cone Group’ pattern surrounded by floral sprays and fruit, and outside with vegetables, flowers, and moths
Steatitic soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and transfer-printed underglaze in blue. Circular with a shaped rim with six lobes alterating with pairs of cusps, and deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The interior is moulded in low relief with three scallop shells radiating from a hexfoil in the centre, and is decorated in the centre with with the ‘Pine Cone Group’ pattern surrounded by three floral sprays, three sprays of fruit inside the shells, and six floral sprays round the rim. The exterior is decorated with three large vegetable sprays, one flower sprig, one fruit sprig, and and three moths of different sizes.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Dame Anne Warburton
Diameter: 25.8 cm
Diameter: 10 3/16 in
Height: 7.6 cm
Height: 3 in
Method of acquisition: Given (2010-06-07) by Warburton, Anne, Dame
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1770
CE
-
1785
CE
Salad or junket bowls were made in several different patterns, for example with six shells moulded on the interior. A number of fragments were found when the factory site was excavated. The shape was also made at the Caughley andLowestoft factories
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( blue)
presumed lead-glaze
Glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and transfer-printed in blue
Glazing
Accession number: C.116-2010
Primary reference Number: 177302
Entry form number: 1038
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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