Dinner plate: C.8-1990

Maker(s)

Factory: John Ridgway & Co.

Entities

• Dinner plate

Categories

• Porcelain
• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, decorated with a medallion containing the arms of Ricardo impaling Duff, a motto, and flowers in polychrome enamels and gilt.

Soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, painted in blue, red, green, yellow ochre, grey and black enamel colours, and gilt. Circular with shaped edge, wide sloping rim and shallow well, standing on a foot rim. In the centre, a medallion containing the arms of Ricardo impaling Duff with the motto TEN (Tiens) FIRME, surrounded by the words ARMA IOANNIS LUDOVICI (?) RICARDO ET KATARINAE UXORIS EIUS in blue gothic letters between narrow blue and gold bands. On the sides of the well, a dentilated gold band, a wide band between two plain gold and an anthemion like border; round the edge of the rim, an anthemion like gilt border, a plain gold band, a wide red area and a gold foliate border. The reverse is undecorated.

Notes

History note: Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve), Trumpington Street, Cambridge

Legal notes

Purchased from Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve) with the J. R. V. Smyth Fund.

Place(s) associated

• Shelton ⪼ Staffordshire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1990) by Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve)

Dating

19th Century, Mid#
Victorian
Circa 1841 - 1855