Plate: C.3-1957

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Maker(s)

Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory

Entities

Plate

Categories

Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated after a Chinese famille-verte original in two tones of green, iron-red, yellow, puce and blue with slight traces of gilding.

Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated in two tones of green, iron-red, yellow, puce and blue with slight traces of gilding. Circular with shallow well and wide everted rim, standing on a footring. Decorated after a Chinese famille-verte original with a large bouquet of prunus, lotus and other oriental flowers in a vase, the high overhead handle tied with a ribbon, the rim with a green and black diaper border scattered with iron-red prunus flowers and reserved with four panels of oriental flowering plants.

Legal notes

Given by T.C. Gotobed

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.5 cm

Place(s) associated

Worcester ⪼ Worcestershire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1957-11-21) by Gotobed, T. C.

Dating

18th Century, Mid#
George III
Circa 1760 - 1765

Note

The design was copied from a Kangxi original of about 1700-20

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( green, iron-red, yellow, puce and blue) gold

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
steatitic Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated in two tones of green, iron-red, yellow, puce and blue with slight traces of gilding

References and bibliographic entries

Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, 1751-1783
Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection page(s): p. 62
The Ewers-Tyne Collection of Worcester Porcelain at Cheekwood page(s): pp. 66-7

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.3-1957
Primary reference Number: 36851
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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