Factory: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain octagonal dish, with applied prunus sprays, painted in enamels in famille rose style
Soft-paste porcelain octagonal dish, moulded, and painted in red, yellow, green, blue, and pink enamels in famille-rose style. The octagonal dish has a flat octagonal rim and shallow oval well. The rim is decorated with applied sprays of flowering prunus, which are painted with scattered sprigs. The well is painted with large sprays of peony surrounded by insects, within a red loop and dot border.
History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 3.5 cm
Length: 32 cm
Width: 22.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1933-10) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1755
-
Circa
1758
The shape is copied from a Chinese porcelain meat dish, of c. 1740, based in turn on an English silver example, and was used extensively in English ceramics of the period. The prunus relief decoration is copied from a Chinese ‘blanc-de-chine’ original, from Dehua in Fujian province, of c. 1700, and the enamel decoration is based on a Chinese original of c. 1735-40. Enamelled decoration was introduced on plain prunus moulded wares a few years after they were introduced, c. 1750, but is never seen in conjunction on Chinese blanc-de-chine pieces.
Whoel
composed of
soft-paste porcelain
( containing bone ash)
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( red, yellow, green, blue, and pink)
presumed lead Lead-glaze
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted in red, yellow, green, blue, and pink enamels
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.72-1932
Primary reference Number: 118641
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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