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Beaded Beaker Match Pot
Factory: Spode
Bone china with borders of applied beading, painted in polychrome enamels with shells, and gilt
Bone china, bone china, with applied beading, glazed and painted in green, yellow, pink, red, purple, pale yellowish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded. The vase is trumpet-shaped with an incurved base. The beading is applied round the edge of the foot, between the foot and sides, and below the rim. On the front is a panel with a pale yellowish-brown ground decorated with a group of shells and sea weed in the other colours. The back is white decorated in gold with two birds a basket of fruit suspended from a swag, a concal basket or vase with a cornucopia on each side, and an arrangement of scrolls at the bottom. The foot is gilded overall, and there is a wide gold band inside the rim.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 11.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-10) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
19th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow, pink, red, purple, pale yellowish-grewn, and black)
gold
Rim
Diameter 7.8 cm
Foot
Decortion
Moulding
: Bone china, with applied beading, glazed and painted onglaze in green, yellow, pink, red, purple, pale yellowish-brown, and black enamels, and gilded
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.152-1932
Primary reference Number: 40616
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) "Beaded Beaker Match Pot" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40616 Accessed: 2024-11-14 20:21:30
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