New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Saucer

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1765-70

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.8

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a 'Fisherman in a Fan-Shaped Panel' Pattern Saucer. The power-blue ground reserved with a central roundel painted with a small house and surrounded by three floral roundels alternating with fan-shaped panels painted with either a Chinese fisherman or a hut beneath a willow on a riverbank, the reserves all edged in gilding and issuing gilt floral and foliate sprigs, crescent 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), 123, pattern number I.B.26.