AN UNUSUAL FAMILLE ROSE SWEETMEAT DISH, Qianlong (1736-1795), c. 1765.
Dimensions: width 7½ in. (19 cm), height to finial 5 in. (12.5 cm)
BJ22
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Further images
Formed as three shells painted with bouquets of colourful blooms, spearhead borders, raised on three small feet, the dolphin handle rising from enamelled waves.
Formed as three shells painted with bouquets of colourful blooms, spearhead borders, raised on three small feet, the dolphin handle rising from enamelled waves.
Literature
These stands have been copied from English originals made at Bow and attributed to modeler John Toulouse, who worked at Bow in the early 1750's, moving to Worcester in the mid to late 1760's,and supposedly taking these moulds with him.
