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Worcester Quatrefoil Sauce Tureen, Cover and Stand, "Fancy Birds" Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1770-75

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm)

Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II

Object numberL2005.10.261

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 1

DescriptionThis is a Worcester quatrefoil sauce tureen (A), cover (B), and stand (C). Each piece was later decorated with a thick apple-green ground reserved on either side with a gilt rococo scroll-edged cartouche colorfully painted with an exotic bird before a small tree on a glassy plateau and further reserved on either side with a smaller rococo scroll-edged cartouche painted with a bird in flight. The handles on each side are formed as gilt-heightened white twigs terminating in iron red and blue flowers and green leaves. The cover and stand rims are edged with gilt-heightened gadrooning. There are small chips in the terminal petals.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II