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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Saucer Dish, “Old Japan Fan” Pattern
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Saucer Dish, “Old Japan Fan” Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1768-70
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.181
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 3
DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Old Japan Fan" pattern saucer dish painted in the center in an Imari palette with a large gilt mons within an underglaze blue roundel reserved with a white flowering vine and surrounded by gilt-patterned fan devices alternating with circles. The exterior is painted in underglaze blue and iron-red with two trailing flowering branches. There are pseudo-Chinese characters marked within a double circle in underglaze blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
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