Sweetmeat dish
Worcester Porcelain Factory
Category
Ceramics
Date
1760 - 1770
Materials
Soft paste porcelain
Measurements
143 mm (Diameter); 85 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Worcester
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870970
Summary
Sweetmeat dish, soft paste porcelain, scalloped edge, single branch handle, Worcester Porcelain Factory, 1760-70; moulded with the 'Blind Earl' pattern of leaves and two rosebuds, decorated with 'dry blue' overglaze blue enamels, with floral sprays and occassional individual sprigs, simple dentil gilt border to the foot, neck and rim, details of the knop picked out in gilt, the cover with moulded leaves picked out in gilt.
Full description
The so-called ‘Blind Earl’ pattern, characterised by its moulded rosebuds, was made by Flight & Barr at the Worcester Porcelain Factory. By tradition, it is said to have been named after the son of the 6th Earl of Coventry, who lived at Croome and was blinded in a hunting accident. This interpretation is now thought to be unlikely, as the pattern was created around 1769 - a few years before the accident occurred in the 1770s.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Estate Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley
Makers and roles
Worcester Porcelain Factory, manufacturer
References
Simon Spero and John Sandon, 2007, Worcester Porcelain: The Zorensky Collection, p.193