Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated with flowers underglaze in blue and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated underglaze in blue and gilt. The circular plate has a sloping rim with a scalloped and barbed edge of twenty points. The centre is painted with a patera, the well is banded with gilt circles interspersed with quatrefoil florettes on blue, and the rim has a gilt foliated band overlaid with inverted S-scrolls in gilt, shaded in underglaze blue.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA, FSA
Diameter: 22.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1918) by Griffin, Ralph, MA, FSA
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1780
-
1790
Decoration composed of cobalt-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.92B-1918
Primary reference Number: 32998
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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