Ladle

Date1768-1775

Artist/Maker Worcester Porcelain Manufactory

MediumPorcelain, soft-paste

DimensionsOL: 6 1/2"

Credit LineGift of Mr. Samuel M. Clarke

Object number1993-179,2

DescriptionLadle intended to accompany tureen and cover (acc. no. 1993-179,1 A&B). Of warm white body with warm glaze. The ladle with slightly curved handle swelling at the terminal and fourishing in a shell to the underside of the round bowl. The tip of the handle with white reserve in mirror-shape; the bowl with central reserve echoing the shape of the tureen. The Gros Bleu (dark blue) ground with little wreathes of gilt dots. The reserves with ogee gilt borders. The center of the bowl decorated with dry puce garlands of flowers around a central purple flower, very much in the manner of Sevres.
Inscribedno
MarkingsThree dots in underglaze blue to underside.
ProvenanceEx. Coll: F.W. Carter, Edinburgh
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago
with Hanzel Galleries, Chicago, 21 July 1968, lot 38
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Clarke, 1987

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