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Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain dish, painted overglaze with flowers and insects in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain dish, painted in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The peach-shaped dish stands on a low wedge-shaped foot-ring, partly ground. It is painted with scattered flower sprays and insects, the rim edged in brown.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA
Height: 3.5 cm
Height: 1 3/8 in
Width: 19 cm
Width: 7 7/16 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA
18th Century, Mid
George II
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Circa
1754
-
1756
The flower painting is very close to that of the deutsche Blumen of contemporary Meissen porcelain, and the shape derives from a Japanese original. See documentation.
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded and painted overglaze with flowers and insects in polychrome enamels
Accession number: C.24-1918
Primary reference Number: 73478
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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