Cheese dish container

Eight-sided container in blue and white porcelain with a moulded border of arches and shells at the top and leaves at the base. Blue reliefs of Britannia, and Cupid with Venus are applied to a white ground. The name of the maker, the pottery and the date are incised on the base.

Object Details

ID: AAA4977.2
Type: Cheese dish container
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Watts, Benjamin
Date made: 1844
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Nelson-Ward Collection
Measurements: Overall: 110 mm x 185 mm x 185 mm
Parts: Dish
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