Factory: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain dessert spoon, glazed and painted in puce enamel with flowers within gilt borders
Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, and painted in puce enamel. Dessert spoon of traditional form, but with the handle terminating in a rococo cartouche, and the heal of the spoon with raised rococo scrolls. The front and back of the bowl are painted in puce with an arrangement of flowers, including roses, peonies and tulips; sprigs of flowers decorate the stem, and the cartouche is filled with a pattern of scalework; with gilt borders and highlights
History note: Not known before Charles Brinsley Marlay, London
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Length: 18 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
18th Century, Mid-Late
Circa
1740
CE
-
Circa
1800
CE
Decoration composed of enamel ( puce) gold
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, press-moulded, glazed, painted in puce enamel, and gilded
Glazing
Accession number: MAR.M.178-1912
Primary reference Number: 166877
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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