Plate: EC.8-1946

Components of the work

Decoration composed of cobalt-blue ( oxide)

Materials used in production

containing bone ash Soft-paste porcelain
presumed lead Lead-glaze

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue
Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

• Text: RC
• Location: On front in the centre
• Method of creation: Painted underglaze in blue
• Type: Initials

• Text: Mr /ROBERT/CROWTHER/STOCKPORT/CHESHIRE and 'January 1770'
• Location: On back
• Method of creation: Painted underglaze in blue
• Type: Inscription

Inscription present: circular printed in dark blue with a coat-of-arms, the word COLLECTION and No. Inscribed in black ink with the numbers 36 of 3G and a,96

• Location: On back
• Method of creation: Printed in dark blue and inscribed in black ink
• Type: Collection label

References and bibliographic entries

• English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century page(s): 19, 26
• Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum page(s): 14
• Bow Porcelain 1744-1776, A Special Exhibition of Documentary Material to Commemorate the Bi-centenary of the Retirement of Thomas Frye page(s): 53-4
• Bow Porcelain page(s): 168
• John De Lanauze and others associated with the Bow factory page(s): 133-64
• Later Bow porcelain: a suggested chronology page(s): 59

Identification numbers

Accession number: EC.8-1946
Primary reference Number: 118640
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Audit data

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts