Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain saucer dish, moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels with fruit and insects.
Soft-paste porcelain saucer dish, moulded and painted overglaze in red, yellow, green, brown, and puce enamels. The circular dish has shallow curved sides and a feather-edged rim. The inside is decorated with a cluster of walnuts, plums, raspberries, and a pear, with three scattered insects. the border is picked out in turquoise and brown.
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by the Rev. A.V. Valentine-Richards
Diameter: 20 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-04-03) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev
18th Century, third quarter#
Gold anchor period (1759-69)
George III
Circa
1762
CE
-
Circa
1765
CE
Feather-moulded borders were first used at Chelsea c.1755, and continued in production throughout the Chelsea-Derby period. They are also found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware and cream-coloured erthenwares.
The bold style of fruit painting is comparable to two plates from a service, at one time owned by the Duke of Cambridge, a grandson of George II. It was to influence the fruit painting undertaken in the London atelier of James Giles during the late 1760s, and the painting on a Worcester service, made c. 1775-8 for William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, brother of the Duke of Cambridge who owned the Chelsea service.
Decoration composed of enamel ( red, yellow, green, brown, and puce)
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Saucer dish of soft-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted overglaze in polychrome enamels with fruit and insects
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.71-1933
Primary reference Number: 118588
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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