Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Factory:
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Painter:
Giles, James
(In style of)
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain tureen and cover and stand, decorated with flower sprays onglaze with polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain tureen, cover and stand, decorated onglaze with claret ground colour and iron-red, yellow, green, blue, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt. The tureen is of quatrelobed oval shape, with two scallop shell handles; the domed cover is of similar shape with an artichoke knop; and the deep stand, en suite, has incurved sides and stands on a footring. Decorated with the 'Hope Edwards' pattern. The sides of the tureen are decorated with sprays and sprigs of coloured fruit and flowers, below a wavy claret border with eight pendants which are overlaid with cornucopiae of flowers and trellis in ciselé gilding; the two shell handles are picked out in gilding. The cover is decorated en suite with the knop and two leaves picked out in gilding. In the centre of the stand is a cluster of fruit and flowers with a gilt band round the well; the sides are decorated en suite with the rest.
Legal notes
Given by Miss E.M. Furlonge
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1958)
by
Furlonge, E. M.
Dating
18th Century
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1775
Note
See correspondence of 1st May, 1981 from Robert Williams of Winfred Williams, 3 Bury Street, St. James's, London, S.W.1., in which he states that this item is later-decorated, 19th century forgery. Examination has shown it to have definite signs of erasure of old decoration and addition of new, particularly the claret ground and gilding. The gilding is coarse and muddy, and the claret colour rather pale. The flower painting is in the style of the London decorator, James Giles.
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red, yellow, green, blue, lilac, puce and brown)
gold
Tureen And Cover
Height 12.2 cm
Length 16 cm
Stand
Length 23.2 cm
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing (coating)
: Soft paste-porcelain decorated onglaze with claret ground colour and iron-red, yellow, green, blue, lilac, puce and brown enamels and gilt
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.13 & A & B-1958
Primary reference Number: 37019
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Thursday 14 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
