Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)
Maker(s)
Factory:
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Entities
Categories
Description
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, painted with flowers in onglaze enamel colours reserved against a pale yellow ground, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, painted with onglaze enamel colours reserved against a pale yellow ground, and gilt. The globular teapot has a curved spout and ribbed loop handle, supported on a low footring. The slightly domed cover has an open flower knob with two leaf terminals. Each side is painted in red, green, purple and 'dry-blue', with a large bouquet surrounded by smaller scattered flower sprigs, on a yellow ground; the handle and spout with purple trefoils above gilt scrollwork; the neck with a gilt wavy line between two gilt bands. The cover is decorated en suite, with naturalistically coloured flower knob.
Legal notes
Given by Miss E.M. Furlonge
Measurements and weight
Height: 15.5 cm
Length: 19.0 cm
Relative size of this object
Place(s) associated
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Worcester
⪼ Worcestershire
⪼ England
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1958)
by
Furlonge, E. M.
Dating
Mid-18th Century
George III
Circa
1765
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1770
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( red, green, purple and 'dry-blue')
gold
Materials used in production
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing (coating)
: Soft-paste porcelain, painted with onglaze enamel colours reserved against a pale yellow ground, and gilt
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.8 & A-1958
Primary reference Number: 36858
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 3 May 2012
Last processed: Monday 15 March 2021
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
