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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated onglaze with flower sprigs in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated onglaze with pea-green ground colour, iron-red, puce, green, lilac and 'dry-blue' enamels and gilding. Circular with scalloped edge of twenty-four arcs, sloping rim and deep well, standing on a footring. Decorated with the 'Marchioness of Huntley' pattern. The pea-green border is edged with gilt rococo scrollwork. Two pendant sprays of polychrome flowers curve across the well and there are smaller sprays next to the border. A gilt line encircles the outer edge.
Given by F.G. Collins
Diameter: 21.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1946) by Collins, F.G.
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1770
CE
This pattern is named because a dessert service of the same pattern was sold by the second wife of the 10th Marquess of Huntley in 1882.
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, puce, green, lilac and 'dry-blue') gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated on glaze with apple-green ground colour, iron-red, puce, green, lilac and 'dry-blue' enamels and gilding
Accession number: EC.1-1946
Primary reference Number: 34361
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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