Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
Proprietor:
Littler, William
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain leaf dish, decorated in Chinese famille rose style with animals amid plants in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain leaf dish, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in coloured enamels. The dish is formed as a curled-over leaf with veining and four rudimentary feet on the reverse, the crabstock handle with two fig terminals. The handle is coloured in turquoise, green and pink, and the centre of the leaf is painted in Chinese famille rose style with two herons, one with a fish in its beak, among reeds and grasses, and two misty mountains in the distance.
Notes
History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970.
Legal notes
Purchased from Dr and Mrs H Statham Collection with the Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Measurements and weight
Height: 5.0 cm
Width: 17.7 cm
Place(s) associated
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Longton Hall
⪼ Staffordshire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1973)
by
Collection of Dr & Mrs H. Statham
Dating
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( turquoise, green, and pink)
Dish
Handle
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing (coating)
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.29-1973
Primary reference Number: 38154
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Saturday 27 November 2021
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
