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New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Worcester 'Rich Queen's' Pattern Faceted Teabowl
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.

Worcester 'Rich Queen's' Pattern Faceted Teabowl

Manufacturer Worcester Porcelain Company (British)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1770
MediumPorcelain
Dimensions1 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 3 3/8 in. (4.4 × 8.6 × 8.6 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from the City of Norfolk, gift of Elise and Henry Clay Hofheimer II
Object numberL2005.10.177A
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a Worcester "Rich Queen's" pattern faceted teabowl (A) and saucer (B). They are painted in iron-red, green, blue, and gilding with panels of prunus branches or chrysanthemums alternating with underglaze blue panels reserved with a gilt-centered iron-red and white mons surrounded by gilt blossoms and foliage. There is a gilt-centered iron-red and white mons in the center. The barbed rims are edged in gilding. There is a pseudo-Chinese seal mark in underglaze blue.
ProvenanceHenry Clay Hofheimer, II
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