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• Museum number

  3949

• Description

  This pair of heart shaped dessert dishes are from an enormous service made for the headquarters of the Honourable East India Company at Fort St George Madras. The services ordered in 1817 were the largest ever produced at Worcester and included over 7,000 items at a total cost of £4,190, 4 shillings.

• Date made

  0

• Material

  Soft paste porcelain

• Factory mark

  Chamberlains Worcester 155 New Bond St

• Mark type

  Printed

• Provenance/assession

  Purchased 1965

• Length

  10 inches