Fruit Dish
1801-1812 (made)
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Fruit dish of soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt. Quatrefoil-shaped with scrolled projection forming a handle on one side. The rim is decorated with a red band form which hang conventional festoons. In the middle is a landscape.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Fruit dish of soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, Pinxton Porcelain Factory, England (Pinxton), 1801-1812 |
| Physical description | Fruit dish of soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt. Quatrefoil-shaped with scrolled projection forming a handle on one side. The rim is decorated with a red band form which hang conventional festoons. In the middle is a landscape. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Object history | Mr. John Haslem purchased this dish at the sale at the rectory in 1869. (See Haslem, Catalogue of China, Derby, 1879, p. 46, no. 127) Formerly in the possession of the Mr. Williams, rector of Pinxton, son-in-law of John Coke, and then of the Rev. R. H. Frazell, rector of South Normanton, near Pinxton. |
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| Accession number | 3082-1901 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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