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Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl, decorated with birds amongst oriental flowers in underglaze blue, onglaze red and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl, painted underglaze in blue, onglaze in red enamel, and gilt. The circular tea bowl has rounded sides, and stands on a low footring. It is painted with two cockerels strutting amongst oriental flowering shrubs, the reverse with an insect, the interior rim with a border of scrolls interspersed with double circles.
Given by D.M. Hunting, Esq.
Diameter: 8.0 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1934) by Hunting, D. M.
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1780
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of enamel ( red) cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.15-1934
Primary reference Number: 38413
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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