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Worcester Porcelain Factory
(Factory)
Soft-paste porcelain dish, decorated onglaze in iron-red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels, with scattered flower sprigs.
Soft-paste porcelain dish, decorated onglaze in iron-red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The dish is oval, moulded in the form of a shallow open basket, with overlapping hoops on a basket-weave ground, pierced at the intersections; the two vinestock handles are moulded with overlapping vine-leaf and tendril terminals. The centre is painted with a large spray of coloured flowers and three smaller sprigs, within a pink dash border; the moulded hoops are painted with floral sprigs and garlands, reserved in a yellow ground; the brown vinestock handles terminate in green and yellow vine leaves veined in brown, with green tendrils.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Height: 4.2 cm
Length: 30.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Mid-18th Century
George III
Circa
1760
-
Circa
1765
Decoration composed of enamels ( in iron-red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown)
presumably lead-glaze Lead-glaze steatitic Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, decorated onglaze in iron-red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: MAR.C.32-1912
Primary reference Number: 32729
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/32729 Accessed: 2022-05-24 04:14:19
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