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Sweetmeat Dish

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1760-65

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.96

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1

DescriptionThis is a 'Hawks' Pattern 'Blind Earl' Sweetmeat Dish. Characteristically molded with two rose and green rosebuds and two stems of rose leaves issuing from a brown, green and yellow-enameled twig handle, and printed in sepia in the center with a scene by Robert Hancock of two small birds in flight above two larger hawks perched on small trees in a landscape, the scalloped rim edged in brown enamel.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II