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Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish or salt)
1750-1800
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
1961.0867.001
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1961.0867.001
Object Name
Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish or salt)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Jingdezhen; China; Asia
Date
1750-1800
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Enameled
- Painted
- Gilded
Dimensions (inches)
1.97 (H) x 2.992 (W) x 3.776 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
5 (H) x 7.6 (W) x 9.59 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Crane, Paul. 2016 A question of attribution: a chinoiserie-moulded Worcester teapot exemplifying the moulded silver forms of the earliest English porcelain. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle. 27: 33-47.
• Huquier engraving of Messonnier salt designs in Livres d'Ornements: p. 42, no. 16 (lower right), illustrates a somewhat similar form among several salt dish designs