IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 37024 accession number: C.25A-1973 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain butter tub, moulded, and painted in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The oval tubs have lobed dodecagonal sloping sides, which flare outwards towards the rim. The sides are moulded with two oval panels edged with scrolls and rocaillerie, which are divided by two smaller rococo motifs. The two panels are painted in famille verte style with a man holding a fishing net, and a boy fishing in mountainous river landscapes. The interior of each painted with a central flower spray, the rim with a green cell diaper border interspersed with floral vignettes. object type: Soft-paste porcelain butter tub, painted in polychrome enamels with Chinese scenes. title: potting pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Staham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Cunliffe Fund, and with grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37024 PEOPLE ------------------- fisherman boy SUBJECTS ------------------- fishing mountains river fishing mountains river TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 17.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7 CITATIONS -------- Worcester Porcelain British Porcelain Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection Fine British Ceramics, 2nd June 1986 British Ceramics of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, 22nd May 1989 English Eighteenth Century Porcelain Potting Pots and Pans ---