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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain saucer, decorated with flowers underglaze in scale-blue, onglaze in red, blue and green enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain saucer, decorated underglaze in scale-blue, onglaze in red, blue and green enamels and gilt. Circular with rounded sides, standing on a footring. Decorated with a central floral medallion surrounded by scale-blue ground reserved with three small vase-shaped alternating with three larger shaped panels, and with pairs of smaller triangular panels by the rim, all edged by gilt scrollwork and containing chrysanthemums and other flowering plants, and in one panel also a wheatsheaf.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 11.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century
George III
Circa
1770
-
1775
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, blue and green) cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.85-1918
Primary reference Number: 32898
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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