There will be tree works in the Gardens this week – please follow signs on site. The lift will be out of service until Friday 28 June while we work on a replacement.
Porringer, decorated in brown, blue and green on a cream ground. Circular brown line in hollow of porringer with three cross hatched and two other floral motifs in brown, two of the cross-hatched motifs surrounded with blue dots; all linked by lines deepicting a stem shape rising from the border at one edge. The porringer has a border of two concentric brown lines with four patches of brown cross-hatching at intervals, separated by two green and two blue frond patterns.
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
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