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Bow Porcelain Manufactory
(Factory)
Oval soft-paste porcelain basket, moulded and decorated with modelled faces of satyrs and nymphs as terminals of handles and painted overglaze with flowers and birds in polychrome enamels. There is a floral pattern on the outside, and red diaper work inside the rim.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 22.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1918-08-28)
by
Griffin, Ralph, MA
19th century
1800
-
1899
Decoration composed of enamels ( polychrome)
presumed lead Lead-glaze Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated with modelled faces of satyrs and nymphs as terminals of handles and painted with flowers and birds in polychrome enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.160-1918
Primary reference Number: 72292
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 (2022)
"Basket"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72292 Accessed: 2022-05-26 13:06:01
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