Factory:
Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
Proprietor:
Littler, William
Soft-paste porcelain leaf dish, decorated in Chinese famille rose style with animals amid plants in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain leaf dish, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in coloured enamels. The dish is formed as a curled-over leaf with veining and four rudimentary feet on the reverse, the crabstock handle with two fig terminals. The handle is coloured in turquoise, green and pink, and the centre of the leaf is painted in Chinese famille rose style with two herons, one with a fish in its beak, among reeds and grasses, and two misty mountains in the distance.
History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970.
Purchased from Dr and Mrs H Statham Collection with the Cunliffe Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Height: 5.0 cm
Width: 17.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1973) by Collection of Dr & Mrs H. Statham
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( turquoise, green, and pink)
Dish
Handle
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.29-1973
Primary reference Number: 38154
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Leaf dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38154 Accessed: 2024-09-01 01:14:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38154
|title=Leaf dish
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-09-01 01:14:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-38154
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...