Worcester Porcelain sugar bowl with Chinese style scenes

An image of Sugar bowl. Worcester Porcelain Factory. With scenes in Chinese style. The circular bowl has steep, rounded sides, and stands on a v-shaped footring. The sides are printed with the 'Fisherman and Cormorant', or 'Pleasure Boat', pattern, the rim and foot banded in gilt. Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and printed underglaze in blue and gilt, height, whole, 8.0, m, diameter, whole, 10.4 cm, circa 1780-1790.

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Sugar bowl. Worcester Porcelain Factory. With scenes in Chinese style. The circular bowl has steep, rounded sides, and stands on a v-shaped footring. The sides are printed with the 'Fisherman and Cormorant', or 'Pleasure Boat', pattern, the rim and foot banded in gilt. Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and printed underglaze in blue and gilt, height, whole, 8.0, m, diameter, whole, 10.4 cm, circa 1780-1790.

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Accession Number: C.136-1918
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 917 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 107.76kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2014:05:12 15:34:43

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18th Century blue blue and white bowl British ceramics Chinese Style cobalt English fisherman fishermen fishing Fitz_AA Georgian gilded gilding gilt glazed lead-glazed Orientalism porcelain soft-paste porcelain studio ceramics sugar basin sugar bowl underglaze

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