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Details
- Date
- circa 1768-circa 1772
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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tureen and cover 15.9 x 26.6 x 19.3 cm; tureen, cover and stand 16.7 x 26.6 x 21.4 cm
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a - tureen, 8.8 x 26.6 x 19.3 cm
b - cover, 8 x 20.5 x 17.5 cm
c - stand, 4.4 x 26 x 21.4 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2012.155.a-c
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Worcester
Works in the collection
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About
The underglaze scale blue ground was one of Worcester’s most successful inventions. The area designated for the ground was first washed over with dilute cobalt oxide. The scales were then applied in darker cobalt blue. The pattern helped overcome a tendency of the blue ground to cover unevenly.
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 90 (colour illus.). cat.no. 111
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