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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester 'Quail' Pattern Octagonal Plate
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Worcester 'Quail' Pattern Octagonal Plate

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1770-75
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.158
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DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Quail" pattern octagonal plate painted in a Kakiemon palette heightened in gilding with a brace of quail walking between a flowering plant and a gnarled prunus tree. The rim is painted with four floral sprigs and two clusters of blossoms and leaves within an iron-red foliate-scroll border at the edge and interrupted at the corners with gilt blossoms. These is some scratching in the center.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
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