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Basin
Worcester porcelain factory - Enlarge image
Basin
- Place of origin:
Worcester (made)
- Date:
ca. 1770 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Worcester porcelain factory (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:625-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 4, shelf 1
Physical description
Basin of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and the outside is painted with pairs of exotic birds among bushes in three fan-shaped panels and insects in three circular medallions between them, and the panels and medallions are enclosed by gilt borders, from which spring sprays of flowers also in gold, and they are reserved in white on a powdered-blue ground, and the inside on the bottom are butterflies and other insects.
Place of Origin
Worcester (made)
Date
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/maker
Worcester porcelain factory (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Marks and inscriptions
A crescent
In red
Dimensions
Height: 6.7 cm, Diameter: 15.2 cm
Object history note
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mrs Haliburton, Isleworth, for £2 2 shillings in April 1866
Descriptive line
Basin of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770.
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Butterfly; Flowers; Birds; Insects
Categories
Ceramics; Porcelain
Collection
Ceramics Collection