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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain saucer dish, decorated with a cottage in a landscape surrounded by flower sprays, underglaze in bright blue, onglaze in polychrome enamels, and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain, decorated underglaze in bright blue, onglaze in iron-red, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, pink, lilac and brown enamels, and gilt. Circular with shallow, rounded and fluted sides and a scalloped rim with twenty-four arcs. Decorated in the centre with a circular medallion in polychrome enamels showing a cottage in a mountainous landscape, enclosed by a gilt band and a turquoise husk border. The well is decorated with three trailing floral sprays separated by butterflies, and round the rim there is a band of underglaze bright blue, gilt with a barbed chain link pattern between scalloped and dentilated gilt borders.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Diameter: 17.8 cm
Height: 3.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century
George III
Circa
1770
-
1780
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, pink, lilac and brown enamels) cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitc
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.129-1932
Primary reference Number: 33863
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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