Dish
1788-93 (made)
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Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and gilded. Oval with lobed edges. In the middle is a view of a castellated house in blue surrounded by radiating lines in gold. Border in blue and gold.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and gilded |
| Brief description | Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and gilded, Caughley porcelain factory, probably gilded at Chamberlain's factory, Worcester, ca. 1788-93 |
| Physical description | Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and gilded. Oval with lobed edges. In the middle is a view of a castellated house in blue surrounded by radiating lines in gold. Border in blue and gold. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Salopian' (Impressed) |
| Credit line | Given by Alfred Darby, Esq. |
| Object history | The scene is a view of ruins and Chapel of Stanton Harcourt from an engraving in the 'Virtuosi's Museum' drawn by P. Sandby 1778. ECC. Trans. Vol 10 Pt 1. |
| Production | The underglaze blue decoration was carried out at the Caughley factory, and the gilding was probably added at Chamberlain's works. From a service with landscape views largely or wholly copied from prints after Paul Sandby |
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| Bibliographic reference | For these Caughley services with decoration predominantly after prints by Paul Sandby see Dr Chris Holloway and Felicity Marno, 'Paul Sandby and Related Influences on Caughley Porcelain' (2003) and The Caughley Society, Caughley Blue & White Patterns (2012), cats. E6-9 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.135-1921 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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