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Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain plate, moulded and painted overglaze with flowers and butterflies in polychrome enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain plate, moulded, coated with glaze containing tin oxide to make it opaque and white, and painted in red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown enamels. The plates are of circular silver shape, with crenellated rims and three cartouche-shaped thumbpieces. They are painted with scattered flower sprigs and insects, the rims and thumbpieces in brown.
Given by Ralph Griffin, MA
Diameter: 22.5 cm
Diameter: 8 7/8 in
Height: 3.5 cm
Height: 1 3/8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1918-08-28) by Griffin, Ralph, MA
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1752
-
1754
Silver-shaped plates and dishes of the 1750-52 period do not have foot-rings.
Decoration
presumed lead-glaze containing tin-oxide to make it white and opaque
Tin-glaze
red, yellow, green, blue, pink and brown
Enamels
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, coated with and painted overglaze with flowers and butterflies in polychrome enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.13A-1918
Primary reference Number: 71919
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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