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Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated with botanical flowers and insects in polychrome onglaze enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in pale blue, green, yellowish-green, pale yellow, pale and dark purple, dark reddish-brown, and black enamels. The glaze on the reverse has several black speckles, and there are three spur marks within the footring.The plate is circular with a wavy edge, wide rim, and deep well with curved sides, standing on a footring. Placed asymetrically on the viewer's left, are the leaves, an open flower, and buds of the Ketmia Indica (Indian Hemp) with a butterfly hovering above on the rim, and a smaller insect below. The edge is outlined in dark reddish borwn.
History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. (Frances Louisa) Dickson
Given by Mrs Francis L. Dickson
Diameter: 24 cm
Height: 3.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1950-09) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid
George II
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Circa
1752
CE
-
1756
CE
Chelsea tableware with botanical designs were described as being decorated with 'India Plants' referring to the West Indies, rather than as was more usual Oriental Indies, although many of the plants featured did not come from those islands. For example, on the second day of the 1755 Sale Catalogue, lot 36 comprised 'Twelve very fine desart plates, India plants, all different'. The designs were based on plants which appeared in several illustrated botanical books. The design on this plate was derived from Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-70), 'Plantae et Papiliones Rariores', 1748-62, pl. VI, where the Ketmia or Indian Hemp flowers and foliage are depicted with Iris and Alsine, and a smaller illustration shows the whole plant in a pot. The plant is described below as 'Ketmia Indica foliis digitatis flore magna sulphureo, umbone altro purpureo, pediculis foliorum spinosis. Three drawings by Ehret of Ketmia Indica are dated 1742.
Decoration composed of enamels ( pale blue, green, yellowish-green, pale yellow, pale and dark purple, dark reddish-brown, and black enamels)
possibly containing tin-oxide
Glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed,
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: an anchor over 4
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with the inscription written between two black printed horizontal lines
Inscription present: very small rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.91-1950
Primary reference Number: 131404
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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