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Production: Unknown
Soft-paste porcelain decorated with blue ground colour, painting in puce camaieu and gilding. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring with a hole bored through it for suspension. Decorated in the middle with a view of a harbour with many figures, three horses, and a dog. Round the edge there is a blue border decorated on its lower edge with a wavy spray of fern-like leaves and a plain gold band, and on the upper edge with a plain band and a row of spots. The edge is encircled by a gold band, and there is another round the exterior of the footring. Within the footring is inscribed in purple, 'Vue du Port de/la Rochelle'
Fake of a Tournai produced piece
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Diameter: 21.8 cm
Height: 3.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1943-06-29) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
According to a hand-written note on the original catalogue entry, Mlle Jottrand of the Musée de Marimont pointed this dish out as a fake. The porcelain is probably Sèvres painted outside the factory, and the fake Tournai mark added.
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue and puce) gold
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in puce monochrome enamel, and gilded
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: EC.13-1943
Primary reference Number: 76881
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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