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Factory: Derby Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain cream pot and cover, or salt, with applied leaves and moulded finial, and painted with a landscape and an insect in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain cream pot and cover, or salt, painted in green, red, light and dark brown, grey and purple enamels and gilt. Depressed globular bowl standing on a domed foot; two satyr mask handles; fluted domed cover with flange and a flower finial surrounded by three applied leaves on a stalk. The bowl is decorated on one side with a landscape featuring a bridge, and on the other with a flying insect. On the lid there are three insects and a scallop and gilt scallop and dot border.
History note: From the collection of the late Dr & Mrs H. Statham; lent by the testator, 1988. Miss Beryl Statham Bequest accepted by H.M. Governament in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum.
Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum
Diameter: 6.4 cm
Height: 8.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Allocated (1992) by H.M. Government
18th Century, Mid#
George II
George III
Circa
1758
-
1760
Decoration composed of enamels ( green, red, light and dark brown, grey and purple) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain cream pot and cover, or salt, with applied leaves and moulded finial, and painted with polychrome enamels and gilt
Accession number: C.37 & A-1992
Primary reference Number: 74695
Old loan number: Statham Loan 26 & A-1970
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) "Cream pot" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74695 Accessed: 2024-11-21 21:42:56
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