Dish
ca. 1775 (made)
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Fruit dish of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Square in shape and with a wavy rim. Painted with a bouquet in the middle, and festoons of flowers suspended by purple ribbons from a gilt line. Underneath are two parallel ridges intended to give support in the kiln.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Fruit dish of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, ca. 1775. |
| Physical description | Fruit dish of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Square in shape and with a wavy rim. Painted with a bouquet in the middle, and festoons of flowers suspended by purple ribbons from a gilt line. Underneath are two parallel ridges intended to give support in the kiln. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | A cross and '6' (In overglaze blue) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | Formerly in the Alfred Trapnell Collection. |
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| Accession number | C.647-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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