base
- Museum number
- 1896,1118.1
- Description
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Pedestal in hard-paste porcelain with flat back in the form of rockwork covered with shells, with fountain/ waterfall and three putti beside it. Cracked, distorted and smoke-stained.
- Production date
- 1768-1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 23.70 centimetres
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Height: 9.20 inches
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Width: 17.40 centimetres
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Width: 7.70 inches
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Depth: 10.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- No other example is known in Plymouth porcelain, although some of the rock work and coral occurs on Plymouth shell dishes (salts) and bases of figure groups. The presence of a socket indicates that an additional fitting was intended.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Significant losses to lower front, putti and shells. Putti are missing heads and parts of torsos.
Loss to right hand side of base a result of large firing crack. Crack to front, left of centre and reverse. Smoke stained. (Manufacturing faults).
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1896,1118.1
