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Sauce Tureen, Cover, and Ladle, “Hop Trellis” Pattern

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1780-85

MediumPorcelain

Dimensions6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm)

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

Object numberL2005.10.342

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 112, Case 6

DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Hop Trellis" pattern oval sauce tureen (A), cover (B), and ladle (C). Each piece is painted with iron-red and green hops suspended between gold and puce trellises within gilt scroll-edged borders of turquoise cailloute or gros bleu bands. The ends of the tureen have gilt-heightened shell-form handles. The cover has a gilt-heightened pine cone knop. There is a crescent mark in underglaze blue. The ladle has a circular bowl and the handle terminal has gilt-heightened lightly molded scrollwork. The knop stem is hair cracked and the ladle notch on the cover is chipped.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II