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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, painted with flowers in underglaze blue and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, painted underglaze in blue and gilt. Each piece is of circular shape with rounded sides with twenty-four flutes and scalloped rims; the cup stands on a footring. The tea bowl is decorated with an underglaze blue border, gilt with a chain between gilt scalloped bands; inside there is a central blue circle entwined with a gilt foliate garland surrounding a gilt flower spray. The saucer is decorated en suite.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1785
-
1795
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
gold
Saucer
Diameter 13.5 cm
Height 3.0 cm
Tea Bowl
Diameter 8.5 cm
Height 5.0 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.64 & A-1918
Primary reference Number: 32861
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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