Factory: Barr, Flight and Barr
Soft-paste porcelain sauce tureen with cover, painted in polychorme enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain sauce tureen and cover, decorated with a pale green ground, painting in dark green, yellow, brown and purple enamel colours and gilding. The hemispherical bowl has a row of white beading below the rim, two gilt eagle's head and ring handles and a pedestal foot. The circular cover rises in a convex curve to a circular platform edges with white beading and surmounted by a flaming knob (or a tulip-shaped knob). The bowl is decorated on each side with the letters IHS in an oval panel surrounded by a sunburst flanked by horizontal vine branches bearing bunches of grapes, interspersed with ears of corn. The foot is decorated with a gilt zig-zag border and the rim, knob and edge of the foot are gilt. Inside the bowl there is a formal motif with arrows and leaves. The cover is decorated en suite but without the IHS panels.
Given by Peter Crabbe
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 19.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1992) by Peter Crabbe Antiques
19th Century, first half
George III
Circa
1813
-
1840
Decoration composed of enamels ( dark green, yellow, brown and purple) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain decorated with a pale green ground, painting in dark green, yellow, brown and purple enamel colours and gilding
Inscription present: a crown over 'FBB'
Accession number: C.76 & A-1992
Primary reference Number: 37353
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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