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Serving Dish

ca. 1780-1793 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval dish of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Painted with pink rococo cartouche with foliage containing a landscape in the middle, and with rim picked out in blue. Bouquets are bordered on the rim.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels
Brief description
Oval dish of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, Niderviller, ca. 1780-1793.
Physical description
Oval dish of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Painted with pink rococo cartouche with foliage containing a landscape in the middle, and with rim picked out in blue. Bouquets are bordered on the rim.
Dimensions
  • Length: 41.3cm
  • Width: 29.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
Interlaced 'C's (Painted in blue enamel, for Comte de Custine)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey
Object history
According to a note in the register dated October 1932: 'The Baroness van Till informed Bernard Rackham that this dish is one of several pieces stolen shortly before the war by her manservant from a large service that came from her great uncle.'
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.1330-1919

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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