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Tea bowl: C.92 & A-1933

Object information

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Maker(s)

Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory

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Description

Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, decorated with flowers onglaze in dark iron-red, yellow, turquoise and pale green enamels and gilt.

Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, decorated onglaze in dark iron-red, yellow, turquoise and pale green enamels and gilt. The circular tea bowl has high rounded sides slightly curved out at the rim, and stands on a footring; the circular saucer has shallow rounded sides, on footring. The tea bowl is painted in famille-rose style with curving chrysanthemum branches growing from a prunus spray; the rim is decorated with ten prunus flowers reserved in an iron-red band with a gilt diaper pattern. The saucer is decorated en suite, and has two trailing flower sprays in iron-red on the underside.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards

Place(s) associated

  • Worcester ⪼ Worcestershire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev

Dating

18th Century
George III
Production date: circa AD 1770

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( dark iron-red, yellow, turquoise and pale green) gold
Saucer Diameter 12.7 cm
Tea Bowl Diameter 8.0 cm Height 5.0 cm

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
steatitic Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated onglaze in dark iron-red, yellow, turquoise and pale green enamels and gilt

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.92 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 34203
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 12 July 2016 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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