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Factory: C. J. Mason & Co.
Stone china dessert dish, transfer-printed in black and painted in polychrome with imitation machine-made lace pattern.
Stone china, transfer-printed in black and painted in pale blue, green, yellow and orange enamel-colours. Approximately figure-of-eight shaped with six lobes and two handles at the waist, standing on an oval footring. Decorated in imitation of machine-made lace with two circular motifs in the middle and a border round the edge. The two circular motifs are surrounded by eight sprays of leaves and groups of dots.
History note: Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, 1991.
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Height: 4.3 cm
Length: 28.2 cm
Width: 19.5 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: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Second quarter of 19th century
William IV
Production date:
circa
AD 1830
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( black) enamels ( pale blue, green, yellow and orange)
Moulding : Stone china, moulded, transfer-printed in black and painted in pale blue, green, yellow and orange enamel-colours.
Inscription present: a crown above 'NEW STONE/CHINA'
Accession number: C.339-1991
Primary reference Number: 74593
Packing number: EURCER 1025
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Dessert dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74593 Accessed: 2023-04-02 07:51:50
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