Dessert Dish
ca. 1762-65 (made)
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Dessert dish of porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief, and in the form of an oval basket, with low openwork sides imitating looped wickerwork, and overlaid at either end with painted vine-leaves in relief, the stem forming the loop handle, and in the middle and on the hoops of the basketwork are bouquets and sprays of flowers, and the groundwork of the rim between the hoops is coloured canary yellow.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief |
| Brief description | Dessert dish of porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief, and in the form of an oval basket, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1762-65 |
| Physical description | Dessert dish of porcelain painted with enamels and moulded in relief, and in the form of an oval basket, with low openwork sides imitating looped wickerwork, and overlaid at either end with painted vine-leaves in relief, the stem forming the loop handle, and in the middle and on the hoops of the basketwork are bouquets and sprays of flowers, and the groundwork of the rim between the hoops is coloured canary yellow. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | One of a pair with 414:503-1885 (Sch. I 570) The pair was purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Willson, London, for £7 in October 1881 |
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| Bibliographic reference | For another of this pattern see see S. Spero and J. Sandon, Worcester Porcelain ... The Zorensky Collection, 1996, no. 257 (dated ca. 1762-65) |
| Other number | Sch. I 570A - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:503/A-1885 |
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| Record created | January 23, 2009 |
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