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Sweetmeat Dish

1813-1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sweetmeat dish of porcelain. Octagonal with palmette handle and shaped and moulded gilt edge. Green border with a scrolled edging of raised gilding and gilt rosette in the centre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in green enamel and gilt
Brief description
Sweetmeat dish, porcelain painted in green enamel and gilt, Worcester porcelain factory (Flight, Barr & Barr period), England, 1813-1840
Physical description
Sweetmeat dish of porcelain. Octagonal with palmette handle and shaped and moulded gilt edge. Green border with a scrolled edging of raised gilding and gilt rosette in the centre.
Dimensions
  • Width: 22.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'FLIGHT, BARR & BARR Proprietors of the Royal Porcelain Works WORCESTER Established 1751 London Warehouse No. 1 Coventry Street' with the royal arms of England the crest of the Prince of Wales (Printed in red)
  • 'FBB', impressed (Maker's mark for Flight, Barr & Barr)
  • Transliteration
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Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Production
Flight, Barr & Barr period
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
3333L-1901

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Record createdJuly 27, 2009
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