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Factory: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
White earthenware with slightly blue tinted glaze, transfer-printed in dark ochre-yellow, painted underglaze in blue, overglaze in red and yellow enamels, and gilt. Oval with flat rim, deep, curved sides, and flat centre. In the centre is a 'Japan' pattern arrangement of flowers and foliage. On the rim there are four sprays of similar flowers and foliage, a border of striped triangles with red and yellow, or yellow half-flowers at intervals, and an ochre-yellow band round the edge.
History note: Uncertain before donor
Given by Miss Emily Beales
Height: 2.5 cm
Length: 26.0 cm
Width: 10.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1915-06-26) by Beales, Emily, Miss
Victoria I
Production date:
circa
AD 1860
Decoration composed of enamels gilt cobalt-blue
slightly blue
Lead-glaze
White earthenware
Inscription present: 'E +'or 'C +'
Accession number: C.18-1915
Primary reference Number: 11947
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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