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Worcester Large Cabbage Leaf Dish

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1758-60

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions13 11/16 in. (34.8 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.194

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1

DescriptionThis is a Worcester large cabbage leaf dish press-molded as two overlapping leaves with pink midribs issuing from the crossed stems handle and shaded on the edges from pale green to pale yellow. The lower leaf has a pink shaded overturned tip. The dish is painted in an atmospheric style in the center with a girl wearing a yellow and rose dress and seated in a swing suspended between two green and brown leafy trees and being pulled with a rope held by her rose- and yellow-costumed male companion below, nearby a recumbent brown cow, a wooden fence, a meandering stream, and a distant Italianate building. There is some wear in the center and the rim has two restored chips.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II