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Plate: C.103-1933

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Current Location: In storage

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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory

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Description

Soft-paste porcelain plate, painted underglaze in blue, and decorated with a bouquet of flowers in the centre with onglaze polychrome enamels and gilt.

Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated underglaze in blue, onglaze in polychrome enamels and gilt. Circular with deep well and narrow fluted and lobed rim, standing on a footrim. Painted in the centre with a star-shaped bouquet of polychrome flowers and foliage, reserved in an underglaze blue ground and encircled by a gilt band and entwined scrollwork border; dentilated gilt rim.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 19.4 cm
Height: 3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev

Dating

18th Century
George III
Production date: circa AD 1770

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome) cobalt-blue gold

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
steatitic Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: W
  • Method of creation: Underglaze in blue
  • Type: Mark

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.103-1933
Primary reference Number: 34271

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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