Worcester Square Dessert Dish
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1770-72
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.222
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester square dessert dish painted in the London workshop of James Giles in shades of rose, purple, iron-red yellow, and green. It has a central floral bouquet within a brown line entwined with a green foliate vine around the cavetto below the gilt dentil-edged sepentine rim. It has been repaired and the rim chips have been restored.ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
