Dish
ca. 1770 (made)
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Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Oval with a wavy edge. Decorated in imitation of Chinese porcelain. The surface is divided into four compartments within a border of diaper-pattern interrupted by panels enclosing flowers. The compartments contain alternately a grotesque monster and a group of flower-vases on a table in various colours and gold.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770 |
| Physical description | Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Oval with a wavy edge. Decorated in imitation of Chinese porcelain. The surface is divided into four compartments within a border of diaper-pattern interrupted by panels enclosing flowers. The compartments contain alternately a grotesque monster and a group of flower-vases on a table in various colours and gold. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | Part of a set of four dessert dishes C.433 to C-1935 and six plates C.433D to I-1935. |
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| Accession number | C.433-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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