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The solid underglaze cobalt blue ground is known on Worcester as ‘wet blue’. Introduced in the mid 1760s it represented an attempt to emulate Chelsea’s ‘mazarine blue’. Because it was difficult to obtain an even solid colour, the scale blue pattern was often preferred.
Details
Date
circa 1768-circa 1772
Materials used
soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
3.5 x 19.0 cm diam
Credit
On loan from Kenneth Reed
Accession number
L2012.156
Referenced in 1 publication
Bibliography
Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 90 (colour illus.). cat.no. 112