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Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish or salt)
Worcester Porcelain Factory
1756-1758
Category
Ceramics
Creator/Artist/Maker
Worcester Porcelain Factory (Probable maker)
Place of Origin
Worcester; Worcestershire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Porcelain (soft-paste)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
2003.0013.089
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Mrs. Helen Shumway Mayer
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Object Number
2003.0013.089
Object Name
Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish or salt)
Category
Ceramics
Creator (Role)
Worcester Porcelain Factory (Probable maker)
Place of Origin
Worcester; Worcestershire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1756-1758
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Small, red, circular label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: White, rectangular label with "71" in blue ink
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Porcelain (soft-paste)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Printed
- Painted
- Enameled
Dimensions (inches)
2.5 (H) x 4.9 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
6.3 (H) x 12.5 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Sword, Rosalind. 2017 The Marshall Collection of Worcester Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum. 1.
• Two polychrome painted single-shell sweatmeat dishes: p. 168, no. 256 similar model to Winterthur example, 1756-58; no. 257, different model, 1756-58.Book: Sandon, John. 1993 The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1851, Volume 1. 1.
• Similar (same mold?) shell with pink border and flowers: p. 324, col. pl. 80, notes type is rarer in full colors than in blue and white. c. 1765Book: Spero, Simon & Sandon, Henry. 1984 Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection.
• Worcester scallop shell dish c. 1758- 60: pl. 57, p. 60Article: 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.
• Similar shells in Worcester and in Lund's Bristol porcelain: p. 42, no. 17 (Lund's Bristol), c. 1748-50; no. 18 (Worcester), c. 1757. Both listed as salts.