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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester Transfer-Printed 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 Transfer-Printed Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1760
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions4 × 4 3/8 × 4 3/8 in. (10.2 × 11.1 × 11.1 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.345
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1
DescriptionThis is a Worcester transfer-printed sugar bowl (A) and cover (B). Each piece is printed in black. The circular bowl has three vignettes depicting "La Diseuse d'Aventure" ["The Fortune Teller"] by Robert Hancock after a painting by Jean Antoine Watteau, "The Tea Party, No. 2," and "The Maid and the Page." The cover has two vignettes of rural views, one with classical ruins, flanking the floral sprig knop. There is a small chip on one petal of the knop.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
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