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Inkstand with inkwell and pounce pot
Factory: Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory
Hard-paste porcelain decorated with yellow ground colour, painting in polychrome enamels, and gilding
Hard-paste porcelain decorated with yellow ground colour, painting in blue, green, yellow, puce pink, orange-red, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilding; the underside of each piece is unglazed. The oval stand is supported on four paw feet. It has shallow straight sides, a fluted candlestick with integral nozzle at the back, with two raised straight-sided rings in front of it enclosing respectively a cylindrical pounce pot with a pierced convex top, and a cylindrical ink well with a central circular aperture; both with a slightly projecting upper edge. The outer edge of the stand has a yellow ground. The flat base of the interior is decorated with three floral sprays and two sprigs. The candlestick has a yellow ground and gilded details. All the edges are banded in gold, and there are touches of gilding on the lion's paws. The pounce pot has a yellow ground and two shaped reserves with gilded frames, one enclosing an actor (?) standing in a landscape with a sphere on a pedestal, the other, a seated woman playing a lute or guitar in a landscape with an urn on a pedestal. There are gold bands round the base and upper edge, and a circle in the centre. The inkwell is decorated to match. In one reserve an actor (?) leans against a pedestal in a landscape, and in the other, a woman stands in a landscape with an urn on a pedestal. The top is decorated with five different floral sprigs. There are gold bands round the base and upper edge, and around the central aperture.
History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 10 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932-06-13) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Late
Circa
1770
CE
-
1780
CE
Decoration
composed of
ground colour
( yellow)
enamels
gold
Visible Surfaces
composed of
glaze
Inkwell
Diameter 5.9 cm
Height 5 cm
Pounce Pot
Diameter 5.9 cm
Height 5 cm
Stand
Length 19.2 cm
Width 13.7 cm
Inscription present: a script F
Accession number: C.197 & A & B-1932
Primary reference Number: 72919
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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