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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester 'Astley' or 'Harvest Bug' Pattern Saucer
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Worcester 'Astley' or 'Harvest Bug' Pattern Saucer

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1765-70
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.138
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DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Astley" or "Harvest Bug" pattern saucer painted in a famille-rose palette heightened in gilding with a gold-spotted black beetle crawling toward a flowering peony branch near two smaller flowering branches and two sprigs and the rim interior with an iron-red scallop-and-dot border.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1765-70
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1765-70
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Porcelain Company
ca. 1753-54