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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated with the 'Queen Charlotte Whorl' pattern; in underglaze blue, onglaze in puce and iron-red enamels and gilding.
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated in underglaze blue, onglaze puce and iron-red enamels and gilding. Circular with shallow well and narrow lobed rim, standing on a footrim. Decorated with the 'Queen Charlotte Whorl' pattern; a central puce flowerhead within a blue circle, surrounded by radiating, alternately blue and white spiral panels decorated with flowers and scrolls; narrow iron-red border of scrolls and flower heads with a gilt band round the edge.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 19.6 cm
Height: 2.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red and puce) cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.82A-1918
Primary reference Number: 32889
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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