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Dish: C.74-1950

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Tournai Porcelain Factory

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Description

Soft-paste porcelain dish with spirally fluted rim, painted in enamels with exotic birds, and with a gilded rim

Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, purplish-pink, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. Circular with a wavy edge, sloping rim moulded with spiral fluting, and a deep well. Decorated in the centre with three long-tailed exotic birds; one large, and one small standing, and one small perched in a tree. A small inseck flies to their left near the edge of the well. The edge of the rim is gilt

Notes

History note: Unknown before donor

Legal notes

Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 24.4 cm
Height: 4 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1950-09) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs

Dating

18th Century, second half
Circa 1762 CE - 1781 CE

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, green, yellow, purplish-pink, purple, brown, grey, and black) gold

Materials used in production

presumed lead-glaze Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, purplish-pink, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt.
Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: crossed swords with crosses in the spaces
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Painted overglaze in gold
  • Type: Factory mark

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.74-1950
Primary reference Number: 75963

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 25 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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