Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, with moulded decoration of birds and grapes and painted in famille-rose style with Chinese scenes in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain sauceboat, with moulded decoration and painted in onglaze red, yellow, green, blue and pink enamels. The oval sauceboat has bulbous flared sides moulded on each side with a panel edged with rocaillerie, including birds and grapes; it has a pinched lip spout, with a moulded geranium leaf below, and a ribbed strap handle with scroll thumbpiece and geranium leaf terminal; supported on a waisted oval foot. Painted on each side in famille-rose style with a standing Chinese lady holding a fan, the inside of the rim 'Precious Objects', a green leaf painted below the spout, disguising a firing crack.
History note: Purchased by Dr W.L. Glaisher from Messrs. Oates and Musson of Stamford for £9.9s on October 27th 1918
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 29 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1752
-
1754
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, blue and pink)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3129-1928
Primary reference Number: 33086
Old object number: 3966
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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