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Factory: Swansea
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted with flowers in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain painted in greyish-blue, green, pink, iron-red, brown and black enamels. Circular with a shaped edge of six large and six small arcs, gently sloping rim and shallow well, standing on a footring. Decorated in the well with a fish in a pond among flowering plants, and on the rim with alternate blossom sprays and insects. A wide brown line encircles the edge.
History note: Unknown before Canon James Owen, Cambridge
Bequeathed by James Owen
Diameter: 24.2 cm
Height: 2.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1994-04-25) by Owen, James
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1817
CE
-
1822
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( greyish-blue, green, pink, iron-red, brown and black)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain painted in greyish-blue, green, pink, iron-red, brown and black enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.5-1994
Primary reference Number: 41181
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/41181 Accessed: 2024-11-15 04:26:03
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University of Cambridge}}
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