Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
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.
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1770
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
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated onglaze in dark iron-red, yellow, turquoise and pale green enamels and gilt
Accession number: C.92 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 34203
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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