IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140338 accession number: C.6-1982 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, tin-glazed, and decorated with blue, green, yellow dark pink, salmon-pink, red, and pale purple enamels. Of marescialla form, approximately oval with rococo scrolled edges, wave and shell motifs at either end,and lightly fluted sides. In the middle there is a motif resembling the underside of a mushroom or a different type of shell, linked by two stems to the shells at the ends. The shells at the ends are coloured in salmon-pink and blue, and the scrolls round the outer edge in pale purple. The central motif is striped in purple, and outlined in red, as are the two stems on either side of it. The sides are decorated with scattered polychrome floral sprays and sprigs. object type: hard-paste porcelain dish painted in enamels title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Lady Cynthia Postan from Gabor Cossa. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Sir Michael and Lady Cynthia Postan through the Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140338 PEOPLE ------------------- Postan, Michael, Sir Postan, Cynthia, Lady SUBJECTS ------------------- shell shell TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Doccia Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 27.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18.5 CITATIONS -------- Doccia Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum L'arte della porcellane in Italia: Il Veneto e la Toscano British and Continental Ceramics La Manifattura di Giuseppe e Bartolomeo Ginori a San Donato in Polverosa The Winter Collection ---