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Factory: Tournai Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain dish with spirally fluted rim, painted in enamels with exotic birds, and with a gilded rim
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, purplish-pink, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. Circular with a wavy edge, sloping rim moulded with spiral fluting, and a deep well. Decorated in the centre with three long-tailed exotic birds; one large, and one small standing, and one small perched in a tree. A small inseck flies to their left near the edge of the well. The edge of the rim is gilt
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Diameter: 24.4 cm
Height: 4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950-09) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, second half#
Circa
1762
CE
-
1781
CE
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, purplish-pink, purple, brown, grey, and black) gold
presumed lead-glaze
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, purplish-pink, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt.
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.74-1950
Primary reference Number: 75963
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75963 Accessed: 2024-11-22 03:26:51
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