Factory:
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Engraver:
Hancock, Robert
(Transfer-print)
Cochin, Charles Nicolas II
(After)
Engraver:
Elliott, William
(Probably from)
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, decorated with genre scenes in trasfer-printed black enamel.
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, transfer-printed onglaze in black enamel. Bulbous body with a ribbed loop handle, curved octagonal spout and a flower knob on the domed cover. On one side, 'The Minuet' and on the other 'L'Amour', signed 'R.Hancock. fecit'. On the cover, a windmill and a ruin with a tower.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 5 5/8 in
Width: 7 7/8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid
George III
Circa
1760
-
Circa
1770
For the prints see Cook, Cyril, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock, Tonbridge and London, 1948, Item I, 'L'Amour'; Item 75, 'The Minuet'. 'L'Amour' after Charles Nicholas Cochin (1715-90, probably from an engraving by W.Elliot (d.1792?) published c.1745.
Decoration composed of enamel ( black)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed onglaze in black enamel
Accession number: C.121 & A-1932
Primary reference Number: 33173
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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