Dish
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1760
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.133
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester 'Magician' Pattern Cabbage Leaf Dish. Each piece 'penciled' in black with a Chinaman holding a bird in his right hand, carrying a parasol in his left and strolling between a vase of peonies on a low table and a pine tree in a fenced garden, the rim with an interior border of diapered panels, S-scrolls and trefoil foliate device, and the center of the teabowl with a vignette of a hut near a willow tree and a large rock.ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
