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Dish: C.39-1998

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Lozenge-shaped dish. Hard paste, greyish, porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red enamel and gold. Lozenge shaped with shallow reverse fluted curved sides with a slightly everted and scalloped rim, standing on a low tapering footring. The rim is gilded. The inside is decorated round the edge with a border of toothed leaves reserved on a red and gold ground; the centre is painted with a sprig of three chestnuts and a gold fruit case. The outside has two symmetrical and two assymetrical scroll motifs in underglaze blue with novel flowers and leaves, carefully painted and three circles around the foot.

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History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Given by Miss Irene Finch

Measurements and weight

Height: 3.4 cm
Width: 19.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1998-10-12) by Finch, Irene, Miss

Dating

18th Century, Mid
Circa 1740 - 1760

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( red) gold

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.39-1998
Primary reference Number: 28741
Irene Finch collection: 85/161

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 4 January 2017

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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