Not currently on display at the V&A

Dish

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, in the form of two conjoined leaves. Transfer-printed in blue with a floral spray and a moth in blue and painted with flowers in colours.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in underglaze blue and painted in colours
Brief description
Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed in blue and painted in colours, Worcester porcelain factory, England, ca. 1770
Physical description
Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain, in the form of two conjoined leaves. Transfer-printed in blue with a floral spray and a moth in blue and painted with flowers in colours.
Dimensions
  • Length: 26cm
  • Width: 19.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A crescent, in blue
  • Transliteration
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Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Honey, W. B. Old English porcelain London: Faber & Faber, 1948, p. 176.
  • For this transfer-printed pattern, see Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, revised edition 1989, cat. II.C.15, where dated ca. 1770
Collection
Accession number
3230-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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