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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft paste-porcelain dish, with shallow relief-moulded decoration, painted with flwer sprays in polychrome onglaze enamels, and gilt.
Soft paste-porcelain dish, with shallow relief-moulded decoration, painted in red, green, purple and pink onglaze enamels, and gilt. The 'Blind Earl' dish is of circular shape, with multi-lobed rim, the crabstock handle extending to two moulded rosebuds and their leaves, which spread over the surface of the dish. Painted with a large floral spray and four smaller sprigs, the rim banded in gilt.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Circa
1760
-
1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, green, pink and purple) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, with shallow relief-moulded decoration, painted in red, green, pink and purple onglaze enamels and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.68-1918
Primary reference Number: 32864
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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