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Plate from a Toy Dinner Service: C.4-2006

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Current Location: In storage

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Plate from a Toy Dinner Service

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Description

White earthenware transfer-printed in puce with a mother and child, and banded on the edge with blue enamel

White earthenware with very slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, bat-printed in puce and banded in blue enamel. Circular with a narrow flat rim, and shallow curved well. Three spur marks on the back. Decorated in the well with a vignette of a mother seated facing to the viewer’s left in a chair with sabre legs, speaking to a small curly-headed child who stands on a low rectangular stool beside her. The mother wears a high-waisted, low necked, short-sleeved Empire-style dress. She holds up her right hand, pointing towards the child, and has her left arm hanging down beside the chair. In her left hand she holds a rolled up paper or handkerchief. There are blue bands round the inner and outer edges of the rim.

Notes

History note: Dadie Rylands, King's College, Cambridge, by whom given to Mrs Elsie Duncan-Jones, the donors' mother (d. 200 ).

Legal notes

Given by Richard and Katherine Duncan-Jones

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 7.7 cm
Height: 1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2006-01-30) by Duncan-Jones, Richard Phare, and Duncan-Jones, Katherine

Dating

19th Century, Early#
Circa 1815 CE - 1825 CE

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( blue) printing colour ( puce)

Materials used in production

blue-tinted Lead-glazed
white Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : White earthenware with pale-blue tinted lead-glaze, transfer-printed in puce and banded with blue enamel
Lead-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.4-2006
Primary reference Number: 126051
Entry form number: 649
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 12 May 2015 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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