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Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish)
Cookworthy (Plymouth) and Champion's (Bristol) factory
1768-1773
Category
Ceramics
Creator/Artist/Maker
Cookworthy (Plymouth) and Champion's (Bristol) factory (Maker)
Place of Origin
Plymouth; Gloucestershire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
Museum Object Number
1978.0072
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1978.0072
Object Name
Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish)
Category
Ceramics
Creator (Role)
Cookworthy (Plymouth) and Champion's (Bristol) factory (Maker)
Place of Origin
Plymouth; Gloucestershire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1768-1773
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Rectangular label with blue print: "Albert Amor Ltd./ Exhibition of the/ Peter Stephens/ Collection/ 1978" and in red ink: "N 0/6
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Rectangular label with black print: "Peter Stephens/ Collection/ PLYMOUTH/ No." and in blue ink: "143"
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
Techniques
- Molded
- Hand modeled
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
4.035 (H) x 6.988 (W) x 7.356 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
10.25 (H) x 17.75 (W) x 18.685 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Slipp, Naomi & Coughlin, Maura. 2023 A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce: The Cultures of Seaweed. 222.
• Published: p. 113, no. 61Catalogue: George, Anne M. 1978 Exhibition of Plymouth & Bristol Porcelain c. 1768- 1780 from the Peter Stephens Collection.
• Published: fig. 16Book: Mackenna, F. Severne. 1946 Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain.
• A triple shell center-piece, made by Tebo, and decorated in underglaze blue by a Worcester artist: fig. 60Book: Emerson, Julie, et al. 2000 Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe.
• Plain white version with many modeling similarities but on three-dolphin base: p. 221, pl. 14.12, Plymouth-Bristol factory, c. 1770, hard paste porcelain