Factory: Lund, Benjamin
Soft-paste porcelain cream pail and ladle, painted in Chinese style in underglaze cobalt-blue.
Soft-paste porcelain cream pail and ladle, moulded, and painted underglaze in blue. The pail is of oval eight-lobed bucket shape, with wavy-edged rim, and diagonally-set overhead handle, which is moulded with scrolls, and supported on four low splayed feet. The ladle has a circular fluted bowl, and a straight scroll-moulded handle with a central flange. The pail is painted on one side with a tall Chinese lady, pointing to a flowering shrub, the reverse with a sampan in a river landscape.
Bequeathed by Frederick John Parry Parker
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1967) by Parker, Frederick John Parry
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1751
CE
Cream pails of this type were also made at Liverpool.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Pail
Diameter 7.0 cm
Height 7.5 cm
Ladle
Length 9.0 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed and painted underglaze in blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.3 & A-1967
Primary reference Number: 32723
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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