Another Worcester Cabbage Leaf Dish
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1758-60
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.199
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester cabbage leaf dish press-molded as two overlapping leaves with pink midribs issuing from the crossed-stems handle. The lower leaf has a curled-over tip. The dish is painted in shades of rose, yellow, iron-red, blue, purple, and green with a bouquet of pink roses, iron-red Turk's cap lilies, an anemone, and other blue and yellow flowers and green leaves surrounded by six floral sprigs and three foliate sprigs. There is slight central wear.ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
