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Sweetmeat Stand

Sweetmeat Stand

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Worcester Porcelain Company

This sweetmeat stand displays a type of Rococo decoration called rocaille. In French, the word “rocaille” means “rubble” or “pebbles.” Rocaille style features elaborately stylized shell-like, rocklike, and scroll motifs.
Artist
Worcester Porcelain Company
(English, 1751 - 1862)
Title
Sweetmeat Stand
Date
ca. 1765-1770
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain with blue underglaze
Dimensions
5 1/4 H x 8 1/2 diam. in. Overall
Credit
Gordon and Josephine S. McGeoch Memorial Collection, Bequest of Josephine S. McGeoch
Accession No.
1984.43
Classification
Ceramics
Geography
England

Related

To 1983, collection of Josephine S. McGeoch (Fox Point, WI); March 1983, bequeathed to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Martin, Ann Smart. "The World At Hand: Ceramics in 18th and Early 19th Century Britain." [online exhibition catalogue] 2008. http://www.materialculture.wisc.edu/worldathand/front.html.

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