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Painter: Nigg, Joseph
Hard-paste porcelain plaque. Painted in enamel colours with flowers, foliage, grapes, and other fruit. There is also a snail, caterpillar, wasps, and some butterflies in the Dutch manner.
Signed and dated
History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W. D. Dickson
Height: 42.5 cm
Width: 32.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1945) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
19th Century
Production date:
dated
AD 1829
Accession number: EC.14-1945
Primary reference Number: 140394
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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