Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain basket and cover, printed, and painted underglaze in blue.
Soft-paste porcelain basket and cover, moulded, printed, and painted underglaze in blue. The quatrelobed oval basket has steep sloping sides, moulded with quatrefoil florettes within hexagonal cells, and with two crabstock handles with applied flower and leaf terminals. The pierced quatrelobed cover is pierced with an oval panel of latticework in the centre, and radiating tapering panels decorated with quatrefoil florettes. Its crabstock handle has applied flower and leaf terminals. The interior of the basket is printed with 'The Ripe Pomegranate' pattern, with a painted lambrequin border round the rim. The moulded florettes and applied flowers and leaves are picked out in blue underglaze. The handle and its terminals are also picked out in blue underglaze.
History note: Purchased by the donor at Sotheby's, Toronto in 1967
Given by Dr M. Jane Phillips
Height: 14.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997) by Phillips, M. Jane
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1770
-
1775
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Cover
Height 6.3 cm
Length 18.5 cm
Basket
Height 8.3 cm
Length 21.2 cm
presume lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, printed, and painted underglaze in blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.69 & A-1997
Primary reference Number: 37265
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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