Dessert Dish
ca. 1773 (made)
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Oval dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded; with a shaped rim, and decorated with a shaped border of roses within gilt circles and festoons of flowers among rococo scrollwork; in the middle is a cupid among clouds, with a quiver slung over his shoulder, brandishing a torch in his right hand, painted en camaïeu in crimson
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Oval dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded, with a shaped rim, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1773 |
| Physical description | Oval dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded; with a shaped rim, and decorated with a shaped border of roses within gilt circles and festoons of flowers among rococo scrollwork; in the middle is a cupid among clouds, with a quiver slung over his shoulder, brandishing a torch in his right hand, painted en camaïeu in crimson |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Decorated in imitation of Sèvres porcelain. Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from De la Roche, Paris, for £5 5 shillings in October 1869 |
| Production | Services of this pattern were included in the Derby factory's Christie's sale of February and March/April 1773, when one was described as 'A compleat desert service painted in cupids after Boucher and gold circles and roses and dentil edge'. A service of the same description, possibly one that had been offered in these earlier auctions, was included in James Giles' sale of March 1774 (see References) |
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| Bibliographic reference | Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelsea-Derby and Early Crossed-Batons Useful Wares, First Supplement, 2009, p. 36-7 pl. 126 xii, where the possibility that some of the Derby dessert services with pink cupids after Boucher may have been painted by Fidelle Duvivier is discussed |
| Other number | Sch. I 397 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:449-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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