IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38154 accession number: C.29-1973 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 27 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain leaf dish, decorated in Chinese famille rose style with animals amid plants in polychrome enamels. title: leaf dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham 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 from Dr and Mrs H Statham Collection with the Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38154 SUBJECTS ------------------- heron fish reeds grasses mountains heron fish reeds grasses mountains TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British Porcelain Factories CITATIONS -------- Longton Hall Porcelain Digging for Early Porcelain, The Archaeology of Six 18th-century British Porcelain Factories Post-Medieval Archaeology, 27 (1993) A Taste of Elegance, Eighteenth Century English Porcelain from Private Collections in Ontario William Littler at Longton Hall ---