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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester 'Old Japan Fan' Pattern Sugar Bowl and Cover
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Worcester 'Old Japan Fan' Pattern Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1768-70
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.182
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Old Japan Fan" pattern sugar bowl (A) and (B) cover 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 cover has a green and iron-red floral sprig knop. There are pseudo-Chinese characters in underglaze blue. The bowl has a serious forking crack and associated losses. The knop has tiny chips.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
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