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Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain dish, moulded and decorated overglaze with flowers and fruits in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain dish, moulded and painted in puce, green, yellow, brown and blue enamels. The wavy-edged stands on an oval footring, and has three spur marks. The front of the dish is decorated with two spreading sprays of fruiting-vine, picked out in naturalistic colours, and with two flower sprays in the centre.
Bequeathed by Mrs L.M. Venn
Height: 5.2 cm
Height: 2 1/16 in
Width: 25.3 cm
Width: 9 15/16 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1958-07-10) by Venn, Lucy Marion, Mrs
18th Century, second half#
George III
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
: The shape is also found in Derby porcelain, c.1762-65. See documentation.
Decoration composed of enamels ( puce, green, yellow, brown and blue)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated overglaze with flowers and fruits in polychrome enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.2-1958
Primary reference Number: 73206
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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