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Enamelled white dish, decorated with flowers which represent the seasons. The dish is oval with a narrow rim, deep and slightly sloping sides and a flat central area, which is supported on the underside by four strips of copper without enamel.
Decorated in the middle with an arrangement of sprays of roses and chrysanthemums and a stem of seeding grass, surrounded by a narrow pale border with darker blue foliated scrolls and flowerheads over it.
On the sides there are a pale and dark pink diaper pattern, which is interrupted by four oblong shaped panels containing respectively: two rose sprays, a prunus branch. a spray of two daisies, and a spray of pinks.
On the rim there are black foliated scrolls and flowerheads embellished with gilding. The back is decorated with a central spray and two pink flowers, the sides have a pink ground decorated in darker pink with foliated scrolls and flowerheads, and the underside of the rim is pale green
Bequeathed by Reginald Cory
Height: 2.4 cm
Length: 27.1 cm
Width: 18.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1936)
by
Cory, Reginald R.
Back composed of ground colour Flowerheads composed of gilt Strips composed of copper
Accession number: OC.47-1936
Primary reference Number: 201989
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Dish"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/201989 Accessed: 2022-06-30 15:29:03
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