Bowl
ca. 1766 (made)
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Bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and in the middle are the arms of Nicholas Loftus, and the sides are scalloped and decorated internally with gilt floral strays on a dark powder-blue ground edged with gilt scrollwork, and the arms consist of a shield with supporters of two eagles, wings inverted, argent, each charged on the breast with a trefoil slipped azure, and motto 'LOYAL AU MORT', and the earl's coronet is surmounted by a helmet bearing the crest of a boar's head erased and erect argent langued gules, and garlands of flowers are trailed in the interspaces.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and in the middle are the arms of Nicholas Loftus and the sides are scalloped, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1766. |
| Physical description | Bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and in the middle are the arms of Nicholas Loftus, and the sides are scalloped and decorated internally with gilt floral strays on a dark powder-blue ground edged with gilt scrollwork, and the arms consist of a shield with supporters of two eagles, wings inverted, argent, each charged on the breast with a trefoil slipped azure, and motto 'LOYAL AU MORT', and the earl's coronet is surmounted by a helmet bearing the crest of a boar's head erased and erect argent langued gules, and garlands of flowers are trailed in the interspaces. |
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| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Button, London, for £20 in October 1884 |
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| Other number | Sch. I 523 - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:523-1885 |
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| Record created | January 20, 2009 |
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