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Junket Dish, “Florals” Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1765-75

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.39

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 6

DescriptionThis is a 'Junket Dish Florals' Pattern Junket Dish. Press-molded on the interior with an elaborate central hexafoil blossom medallion heightened in underglaze-blue and surrounded by six scallop shells alternately painted with a lush floral spray or a sprig, and molded between with scrolls and dots beneath arches decorated with a cell diaper border on the scalloped and barbed rim, the exterior of the rim painted alternately with peony sprigs and foliate sprigs. Crescent mark in underglaze-blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II