New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Finger Bowl Stand

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1760-62

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions6 1/16 in. (15.4 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.95

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DescriptionThis is a Worcester 'River Scene' Pattern Finger Bowl stand. Printed in black with a scene by Robert Hancock taken probably from a Bowles Drawing Book published in 1752, depicting three swans and two ducks swimming in a stream before a wading heron and beneath a kingfisher perched on a tree branch, the narrow rim with a black enamel line at the edge.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II