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Tray, from a Lemonade Set Tray
This is a tray. It was manufactured by Worcester Royal Porcelain Company, Ltd. (a.k.a. Royal Worcester Porcelain Company) and Royal Worcester. It is dated 1879 and we acquired it in 1989. Its medium is porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Japanese art became a fertile source of desings for Europeans and AMerican in the second half of the 19th century. The individual motifs painted on this set are drawn from Japanese ornament, and include fans, flowers, and stylized mon (family crests). (Recent Acquisitions, 4/91)
It is credited Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 2.5 × 28.9 × 26.8 cm (1 in. × 11 3/8 in. × 10 9/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Underside: [1] C51 crown device, impressed (Royal Worcester manufactury) [2] "CE", painted in black (artist's initials) [3] three dots, painted in gold (possibly gilder's mark)
It is signed
Unsigned
It is inscribed
Uninscribed
Cite this object as
Tray, from a Lemonade Set Tray; Manufactured by Worcester Royal Porcelain Company, Ltd., Royal Worcester (England, GB, United Kingdom); porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold; H x W x D: 2.5 × 28.9 × 26.8 cm (1 in. × 11 3/8 in. × 10 9/16 in.); Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund; 1989-77-1