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Factory: Locré and Russinger's Factory
Hard-paste porcelain plate decorated in enamels in the middle with an Indian solider, and on the rim with a broad gilded border of lyres and palmettes
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in blue, yellow, pink, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. Circular with a sloping rim, and shallow slightly curved well. There are three spur marks in the centre of the back. Decorated in the middle with an Indian (?) soldier who is facing towards the left. He has a pink turban a white tunicc, white stockings cross-gartered in pink, and brown shoes. He carries a sword in a blue scabbard, a shorter straight sword or dagger suspended from a shoulder belt, a large powder horn, and a musket whose stock rests on the ground.On the rim there is a formal border of alternating lyres and palmettes linked by scrolls with gold bands on the inner and outer edges.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Height: 3.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph
Circa 1800 CE - 1820 CE
From the same service as C.199B-1918.
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, yellow, pink, reddish-brown, and black) gold
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in blue, yellow, pink, reddish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.199A-1918
Primary reference Number: 72951
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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