Chelsea factory deep soap plate

An image of Plate. Deep soap plate. Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory. Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with flowers and insects in polychrome onglaze enamels, height 1 1/2 in, diameter 9 3/8 in, circa 1750. Red anchor period.

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Plate. Deep soap plate. Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory. Soft-paste porcelain, decorated with flowers and insects in polychrome onglaze enamels, height 1 1/2 in, diameter 9 3/8 in, circa 1750. Red anchor period.

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Accession Number: C.91-1950
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 913 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 182.85kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 39/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Chelsea Porcelain Factory Date Department English Fitz_AA Georgian Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_Replace _WF_Replaced_OK botanical butterflies butterfly ceramics circular enamel enamelled floral flowers glazed insects on-glazed onglaze overglaze painted plate polychrome porcelain round soap plate soft-paste porcelain studio ceramics

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