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Biscuit Jar and Cover

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Porcelain
  • Place Made: England
  • DATES 1886
    DIMENSIONS 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (18.4 x 14.6 cm)
    MARKINGS On biscuit jar: Co. logo printed in green with an 'x'; Co. logo impressed; applied rectangular white-paper tag with no. '3281'; applied rectangular, white-paper tag with ' $285.00'; applied rectangular white-paper tag with 'Royal Worcester, circa 1840'. On cover: Co. logo printed in puce with an "x'.
    ACCESSION NUMBER 1999.152.47a-b
    CREDIT LINE Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Biscuit jar (a) and cover (b), ivory-bodied porcelain, cylinder shaped; bamboo molded with leafy gilt branches against a blue-ground; the gilt-edged flat bamboo-molded cover with stiff gilt leaves issuing from a raised gilt twig handle. Condition: Good, some loss of gilding on cover.
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