Another Worcester Cabbage Leaf Dish
Manufacturer
Worcester Porcelain Company
(British)
Dateca. 1758-60
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions10 5/16 in. (26.2 cm)
ClassificationsDecorative arts
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.199
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.