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Description: | Saucer, one of a pair with teabowls, egg-shell with polychrome enamel scene of apple-pickers and sheep in the well of the saucer, it is interesting to note the difference in painting on each of the pieces, the saucers have a double band border, the inner band on the inside lip of the bowls is a cell diaper on a silver ground which has tarnished to black, with 4 reserve panels of gilt arabesque, the outer band also found on the outer-rim of the bowls is divided into two bands which interlock roughly in the form of fleur-de-lys, the inner being black or perhaps silver tarnished to black, with gilt arabesque, the outer being composed of gilt 'Y' diaper, the bowls have a simple famille rose flower in the well, c1750.
Material: porcelain (egg-shell) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.decorativeart&design.2747 | Go to resource |
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