IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 37265 accession number: C.69 & A-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain basket and cover, moulded, printed, and painted underglaze in blue. The quatrelobed oval basket has steep sloping sides, moulded with quatrefoil florettes within hexagonal cells, and with two crabstock handles with applied flower and leaf terminals. The pierced quatrelobed cover is pierced with an oval panel of latticework in the centre, and radiating tapering panels decorated with quatrefoil florettes. Its crabstock handle has applied flower and leaf terminals. The interior of the basket is printed with 'The Ripe Pomegranate' pattern, with a painted lambrequin border round the rim. The moulded florettes and applied flowers and leaves are picked out in blue underglaze. The handle and its terminals are also picked out in blue underglaze. object type: Soft-paste porcelain basket and cover, printed, and painted underglaze in blue. title: basket NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by the donor at Sotheby's, Toronto in 1967 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Dr M. Jane Phillips STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37265 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower leaf pomegranate flower leaf pomegranate TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, printed, and painted underglaze in blue moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Worcester Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14 CITATIONS -------- The Illustrated Guide to Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1793 Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790 ---