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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Collection of Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain
Collection of Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain Collection of Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain

Collection of Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain

William Cookworthy

Art Funded
1953
Vendor
Philip Andrade
Collection of porcelain by William Cookworthy (1705-1780), who independantly discovered in England the Chinese method of making hard-paste porcelain.

20 pieces, including vases, dishes, mugs,and figurines. A globular blue and white vase with cover is illustrated.

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Art we’ve helped buy at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

i) Self portrait; ii) Sketchbook
 Acquired 2014
Wooded Landscape with Church
 Acquired 2003
William and Mary Rat-Tail Spoon
 Acquired 1939
Wembury House, Nr Plymouth
 Acquired 2006
Waiting
 Acquired 1992
View of HM's dockyard, Plymouth
 Acquired 1940
Untitled
 Acquired 2001
Two Travellers Resting
 Acquired 2001
The Sparke Cup
 Acquired 2015
The Royal William Victualling Yard at Plymouth
 Acquired 1994
The Eddystone Lighthouse Standing Salt
 Acquired 1948
The Andrade Collection of Plymouth and Bristol porcelain
 Acquired 1983
Still Life
 Acquired 1952
SOS & Punch Social
 Acquired 1949
Silver tankard
 Acquired 1973
Silver tankard
 Acquired 1952
Portrait of John Penwarne
 Acquired 1963
Portrait of Johann Friedrich, the Elector of Saxony and the Reformers
 Acquired 2011
Portrait of a Young Woman
 Acquired 2003
Plymouth, from Mount Edgcumbe
 Acquired 2006
Plymouth's Georgian Guildhall, with a Trial in Progress
 Acquired 1980
Plymouth Sound taken from Devil's Point (after JMW Turner)
 Acquired 1939
Plymouth porcelain teapot
 Acquired 1985
Plymouth Pier from the Hoe
 Acquired 1988
Plymouth Harbour
 Acquired 2006
Plymouth from near Mount Batten
 Acquired 1939
Part of the Town of Plymouth, below the Hoe & Plymouth Breakwater from Cattedown
 Acquired 1939
Panel
 Acquired 1931
Mortar & Teapot
 Acquired 1940
Model of the Napoleonic ship 'L'Alexandre'
 Acquired 2008
Landscape
 Acquired 1936
Kilchurn Castle and Loch Awe
 Acquired 1955
Jeu sur Plage
 Acquired 2003
Houses at the Edge of a River
 Acquired 2003
Head of a Fool
 Acquired 1992
Hakutai (A Thousand Years)
 Acquired 2011
Group of ceramics from the Stephen Simpson Collection
 Acquired 1999
Gardens with a Lake, Haddington
 Acquired 2003
Fool carrying a Child
 Acquired 2001
Figures in the Street
 Acquired 2001
Exmouth 1811
 Acquired 2006
Du Maurier Bequest
 Acquired 1934
Drake Island & Looking up the Cattewater
 Acquired 1939
Collection of seven pieces of porcelain
 Acquired 1961
Collection of Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain
 Acquired 1953
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Cathedral, Worms
 Acquired 1936
Bust portrait of Samuel Prout
 Acquired 1936
A View of Exeter
 Acquired 2006
A George I Hot-Milk Jug
 Acquired 1980
A Bazaar at Mount Edgcumbe
 Acquired 1987
7 etchings, lithographs and aquatints
 Acquired 2001
4 etchings, a lithograph & a drawing
 Acquired 1988
1) Globular form on base; 2) Manganese bowl; 3) Tall vase; 4) Round vase
 Acquired 2008

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