Sweetmeat Stand

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Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Worcester Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Worcester (made)

Sweetmeat or pickle stand of soft-paste porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, and in the form of three shells conjoined, and with a mass of smaller shells in the middle surmounted by a dolphin forming the handle, and each shell is painted with sprays of carnations and other flowers and an insect, and with a border of Chinese diaper-pattern.

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Categories	Ceramics Porcelain
Object type	Sweetmeat stand
Materials and techniques	Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue Porcelain Painted
Brief description	Sweetmeat or pickle stand of soft-paste porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, and in the form of three shells conjoined, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1775
Physical description	Sweetmeat or pickle stand of soft-paste porcelain, painted with underglaze blue, and in the form of three shells conjoined, and with a mass of smaller shells in the middle surmounted by a dolphin forming the handle, and each shell is painted with sprays of carnations and other flowers and an insect, and with a border of Chinese diaper-pattern.
Dimensions	Height: 14.6cm Width: 22.9cm
Credit line	Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history	Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Knight, Bath, for £2 in June 1867
Subjects depicted	Shell Dolphin Flowers Insect
Bibliographic references	Watney, B. English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. London : Faber & Faber, 2nd ed. 1973. For this pattern, see Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, revised edition 1989, cat. I.E.12, where dated 1770-85
Other number	Sch. I 484 - Schreiber number
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	414:526-1885

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Record created	January 16, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O183125/sweetmeat-stand-worcester-porcelain-factory/

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