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Spoon
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Spoon
- Place of origin:
Jingdezhen, China (made)
- Date:
ca. 1770 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (manufacturer)
- Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain
- Credit Line:
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
- Museum number:
414:715/G-1885
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case 12, shelf 8
Physical description
Spoon for dessert, of porcelain. With a petal-shaped bowl and a long curved handle; the handle is decorated on the upper side near the end with a prunus-blossom.
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen, China (made)
Date
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/maker
unknown (manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Porcelain
Dimensions
Length: 10.2 cm approx.
Object history note
Part of a set of seven trays, three spoons and a wooden stand 414:715/ to J-1885 (Sch. I 691 to J).
Descriptive line
Spoon, porcelain, accompanying a set of Plymouth porcelain sweetmeat trays, Chinese, ca. 1770.
Production Note
Previously attributed to the Plymouth porcelain factory, which made the sweetmeat trays with which these spoons are associated.
Materials
Porcelain
Techniques
Painted
Subjects depicted
Prunus
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
