- Museum number
- C123A
C123B
C123C - Object
- Sauce tureen, cover and stand, Worcester Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, about 1770
- Description
- One of a pair of small tureens, with cover and standEnglish, Worcester factory, c. 1768-86.Soft paste porcelain decorated in enamel colours with gilding. Oblong quatrefoil shape, underglaze dark blue scale ground with mirror and vase-shaped reserve panels with gilt Rococo frames, painted with European flowers, handles modelled in the form of oak twigs and leaves painted green with gilt acorns.
- Materials
- Porcelain
- Inscription
- Fretted square in blue
- On display?
- Yes
Further description
- Simple name
- Container
Lid
Dish - Subject
- Floral
- Dimensions
- regular: 17.145cm (h) x 12.1412cm (w)
Sauce tureen, cover and stand
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, about 1770
C123A
Plants and flowers were a major source of inspiration for the designers of eighteenth-century porcelain. They were painted in underglaze blue, brightly coloured overglaze enamels or gleaming gold. In naturalistic rococo pieces moulded flowers and leaves form decorative finials, handles and even entire objects.
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