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Fig Leaf-Shaped Dish, “Picture Scroll Landscape” Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1756-58

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.7

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 3

DescriptionThis is a 'Picture Scroll Landscape' Pattern Fig Leaf-Shaped Dish. Press-molded on the front with a network of veining issuing from a short stem handle and reserved in the center with a scroll-shaped panel painted with a Chinaman fishing from a sampan near a gazebo beneath a willow tree, the furled end of the scroll patterneed with trellis diaperwork, and superimposed against a stylized flowering peony tree growing from a rock, 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), 120, pattern number I.B.24.