Sweetmeat Dish
ca. 1760 (made)
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Sweetmeat dish of soft-paste porcelain with moulded decoration in relief and painted in colours. In the form of three deep scalloped-shells painted inside with bouquets and resting on rock work encrusted with various small shells and coral. The handle, placed at the junction of the three scallop-shells, is in the form of a univalve shell.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain with moulded decoration in relief and painted in colours |
| Brief description | Sweetmeat dish of soft-paste porcelain with moulded decoration in relief and painted in colours, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1760 |
| Physical description | Sweetmeat dish of soft-paste porcelain with moulded decoration in relief and painted in colours. In the form of three deep scalloped-shells painted inside with bouquets and resting on rock work encrusted with various small shells and coral. The handle, placed at the junction of the three scallop-shells, is in the form of a univalve shell. |
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| Credit line | Given by Col. Waldo-Sibthorp |
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| Accession number | 363-1902 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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