Factory: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, decorated with flowers and leaves in underglaze blue.
Soft-paste porcelain tea bowl and saucer, painted underglaze in blue. The circular tea bowl has deep rounded sides, standing on a low footring. The saucer is similar with shallow sides. The tea bowl is painted with six radiating spiral sprays of flowers and leaves, alternating with blue wavy-edged bands with flowerheads and dots in white, with a central floral medallion; the tea bowl is decorated en suite, with a flower spray on the interior.
Bequeathed by the Rev A.V. Valentine-Richards
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1780
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Saucer
Diameter 11.7 cm
Height 2.0 cm
Tea Bowl
Diameter 7.8 cm
Height 4.3 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.97 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 38406
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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