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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware painted with floral decoration.
White stoneware, salt-glazed and painted overglaze with blue, purple, yellow, green, orange and black enamels. The deep-curved bowl is painted round the outside with a large floral spray, which includes a large blue and a large purple flower, both with yellow centres. Inside the bowl, there is a purple flower with a yellow centre on the base and a wavy orange border round the rim.
History note: Provenance unidentified before Mrs W.D. Dickson, Southill, Dean Park, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson.
Height: 4 cm
Width: 7.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1945-04-19) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
The floral motifs and soft colours on this bowl echo the so-called famille rose style of decoration used on 18th-century Chinese porcelains produced for the western market. Chinese famille rose porcelain was highly fashionable in Europe at the time.
white
Stoneware
Salt-glaze
Throwing
: Wheel-thrown stoneware, salt-glazed and painted overglaze in coloured enamels
Salt-glazing
Painting overglaze
Inscription present: very small stick-on paper label; badly worn, possible that part of the label has been lost entirely
Accession number: EC.13.6-1945
Primary reference Number: 76878
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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