Dish

England

Probably about 1900

  • Titles Dish (Descriptive)
  • Artist England
  • Medium porcelain
  • Dimensions 1/4 x 6 5/8 in. Diam. (0.6 x 16.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Bequest of Frances Oliver, 1972.74
  • Work Type dish
  • Classification Plaques

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Southern Netherlands, façon de Venise diamond-engraved winged goblet, the funnel-shaped bowl engraved with two oval medallions, one depicting Saint John the Baptist holding the Cross, Bible, and Lamb, and wearing a camel fur over his shoulder, the other showng Saint Paul holding a sword, the saints are flanked by two large flowers; the stem a series of coiled tubes, whose middle section is shaped like an "8" enclosing white threads and applied with pincered ornaments, on a folded conical foot
Tall, bottle-shaped potpourri vase, of white stoneware covered with a blue glaze and a clear pearl glaze, the main body with a pattern of blue and white stripes below a blue band with molded white swags hanging from ribbons, below this a band of beading and above a band of checkerboard pattern, with two covers, one with flat shoulder and pierced with eight large and eight smaller holes, with long striped neck, the other a small, domed, stripped cover with ball finial is a facsimile.
Oval white jasper plaque with relief image of three children discussing "world" issues
Oval blue jasper medallion with white relief profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, with white laurel leaf border made to commemorate her coronation in 1953