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Lozenge-shaped dish: (pair of wolves) c.1770

Accession No.
1996.053
Date Created
c.1770
Gallery location
On display in QAG Gallery 17
Department
International Art
Dimensions A
4 x 24.2 x 17cm
Media Category
Ceramic
Secondary Media Category
porcelain
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast scrolled shape with basket weave design, brown and green overglaze, edged with gilt dentil
Place Created
Worcester, England
Credit Line
Gift of James and Jessica Ellis in memory of Tory and Beatrice Cossart, Boonah, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 1996

During the eighteenth century, the factory established by Dr Wall in Worcester became famous for the quality of its fine porcelain service wares. According with the taste of the day — and following the precedent established by the Chelsea factory in London — these wares were richly decorated. Decorations of groups of animals, largely inspired by the fables of Aesop or Lan Fontaine, appeared first at Chelsea and subsequently at Worcester. The fable relating to this pair of wolves, however, is not identified. Such groups at the latter factory are generally attributed to the hand of the Irish miniaturist Jeffereys Hamett O’Neale.

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A ceramic sculpture of a headless, armless figure on a green sofa. Liu Jianhua / China b.1962 / Obsessive memories (detail) 2000 / Porcelain, modelled and with overglaze colours, incised / Purchased 2004. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / © Jianhua Liu

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