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Factory: Factory of the comte d'Artois
Hard-paste porcelain dish, painted in enamels and gilded, with sprigs, cornflowers, laurel and ribbon.
Hard-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and mauve enamels and gilded. The dish is oval with fluted sides and scalloped rim. There are four spur marks on the underside of the base. The front is decorated in the middle with gilded sprigs, and on the sides, with detached cornflowers, enclosed in wreaths of laurel linked by festoons of laurel intertwined with mauve ribbon. A dentilated gold band encircles the rim.
History note: Shelton Collection, Manchester; purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, December 1925, for £5.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 26.2 cm
Width: 18.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Louis XVI
Production date:
circa
AD 1785
This factory was founded by Pierre Antoine Hannong in 1772. This dish was made at the factory when it was under the patronage of Charles-Philippe, Comte d'Artois, 1779-89.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( blue, green, yellow, red, and mauve)
Decorations
composed of
gold
Moulded
: Hard-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and mauve enamels and gilded.
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: CP below a crown, but only the C and part of the P now visible
Accession number: C.3202-1928
Primary reference Number: 74503
Old object number: 4765
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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