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Factory: Don Pottery
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain porcelain, moulded, and painted in polychrome enamles with flowers, and gilt.
Hybrid hard-paste porcelain (probably), moulded, and painted overglaze in pink, yellow, blue, green and grey enamels, and gilt. The quatrefoil oval dish has rounded sides, and stands on a low wedge-shaped footring. It is painted with a large 'Turk's-Cap Lily' or Martagon Lily spray, the rim banded in gold.
History note: Llewellyn Jewitt Collection; John Rhodes, Potternewton House, Leeds; Bohn Collection. Given to Bernard Rackham by Mrs Calder, April 18 1949; given by Bernard Rackham in memory of Mr and Mrs J. Calder of Bath.
Given by Bernard Rackham in memory of Mr and Mrs J. Calder
Height: 3 cm
Width: 24.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1952-10) by Rackham, Bernard
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1810
-
1812
The botanical specimen was probably taken from the Martagon Lily in Curtis' Botanical Magazine, vol. XXIII, London, 1806, no. 893 (dated December 1805).
Decoration composed of enamels ( pink, yellow, blue, green and grey) gold
probably, not analysed
Hybrid hard-paste
Glaze
Moulding
: Hybrid hard-paste porcelain, painted in pink, yellow, blue, green and grey enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: unidentified auction sale catalogue extract with illustration, lot 173
Inscription present: 97 - printed
Accession number: C.10-1952
Primary reference Number: 41196
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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