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Oval Tureen Stand, “Chinese Garden” Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1755-58

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions18 1/16 in. (45.9 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.3

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 4

DescriptionThis is a 'Chinese Garden' Pattern Oval Tureen Stand. Painted with four Chinese figures beneath a prunus tree in a garden with a bird flitting above a fence at the left and a pavilion at the right, the cavetto with six trailing floral sprays and two flitting insects, and the scalloped rim molded in high relief with a border of rocaillerie and C-scrolls entwined with floral sprigs, clusters of fruit, a bird, a lizard and other ornaments, and the underside painted with four flowering branches, faint workman's mark in underglaze-blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II Published ReferencesLawrence Branyan, Neal French and John Sandon, _Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790_ (London: Barrie & Jenkins, Ltd., 1989), 53, I.A.10.