Saucer Dish
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1755-60
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions7 3/16 in. (18.3 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.5
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a "Fisherman and Willow Pavilion' Pattern Saucer Dish. Painted in the center with a Chinese gazebo within a roundel encircled by a wide border of "strap fluting" reserved with two large rococo scrollwork panels painted with a Chinaman fishing near a similar gazebo and alternating with two smaller panels of a flitting insect, the plain rim with four trailing floral sprays, pseudo-Meissen crossed swords mark and letter e 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), 114, pattern number I.B.21.
