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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, decorated underglaze in blue, onglaze in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, decorated underglaze in blue, onglaze in iron-red, yellow, green, pink and purple enamels and gilt. The tea bowl is circular with deep rounded sides standing on a footring; the circular saucer has shallow rounded sides and a low footring. The dark underglaze blue ground of the tea bowl is reserved with three smaller circular panels of flowers, with gilt flowers and leaves at the corners, and a gilt band round the rim. The saucer is decorated en suite but with a central floral medallion.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century
George III
Circa
1760
-
1770
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red, yellow, green, pink and purple)
cobalt-blue
gold
Saucer
Diameter 11.7 cm
Height 2.0 cm
Tea Bowl
Diameter 7.4 cm
Height 4.2 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.90 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 34192
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Tea bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/34192 Accessed: 2024-11-14 16:21:12
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