IDENTIFIERS
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id:	37700
accession number:	C.142A-D-1932

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 21 October 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Porcelain inkstand, with claret ground, painted in enamel colours, and gilt. The rounded rectangular inkstand stands on three bracket feet at the front, from which rises a leaf-shaped gallery which forms the pen-tray. The central portion, which is enclosed by curved galleries, and has two upright scallop shells at the back corners, has three circular holes which contain removable receptacles for ink, pen, and pounce, each with a cover surmounted by a rose or viola finial. The back integral taperstick flanked on each side by a quill-holder of square section. On the front is a rectangular gilt-edged panel enclosing a named view of Worcester, painted in colours in reserve on a claret ground. The whole is enriched with gilding.
object type: Porcelain inkstand, glazed, with claret ground, painted in enamel colours, and gilt.
title:	inkstand

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37700





TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, with claret ground, painted in enamel colours, and gilt
glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1815
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1815
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Chamberlain's Worcester Porcelain Factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.9

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 21.5



CITATIONS
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Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain
An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain
Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain 1788-1852
Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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