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Factory: Frankenthal Porcelain Factory
Hard-paste porcelain painted in blue, bluish-green, green, yellow, yellowish-brown, dull red, red-brown, brown, purple, and black, and gilded. Circular with eight slight arcs on the edge, sloping concave rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre, standing on a footring. Decorated in the centre with a gold crown of TC monogram (Carl Theodore) surrounded by a sunburst with wavy rays. Around this are thirty radiating comparmens outlined in gold, each painted with a spray of flowers, and numberered 1-3, next compartment unnumbered, 5, 1-8, 108, and 1-6. Flowers 1-3 are gold 4 puce and gold, 5 red and gold, 108 shades of blue, 1-8 shades of yellow to yellowish-brown, 1-6 shades of bluish-green. On the sides of the well is an inscription in Latin VARIANTIBVS FLOSCVLIS DIVERSIL COLORES FABRICA SVB REVIVI GENTIS SOLIS HVIVS RADIIS EXVLTANTIS IN FRANKENTAAL*’ in letters of unequal size in gold between gold bands. On the rim there are thirty raditaing panels outlined in gold painted with a floral spray of a rose and tulip, numbered 1-4, 1-8 , a and b 1a-1d and 2a, 2b 3 and 4. Sprays 1-4 are black, 1-8, a and b puce-purple, 1a – 1d and 2a, 2b 3 and 4, iron red. There is a gold band on the edge.
History note: The Reverend Thomas Staniforth (d. 1887) Storrs Hall, Cumbria. Purchased from J. Rochelle Thomas for £24?, the Georgian Galleries, 10-12 King Street, St James, London SW1.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Diameter: 24.7 cm
3.2
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Method of acquisition: Bought (1939)
18th Century
Carl Theodore
Production date:
circa
AD 1775
: Carl Theodore was the Elector Palatine
Dawson 1985 (see Documentation) gave the following information: Emil Heuser (see Documentation, 1922) considered that this was a ‘colour trial plate’ (Farbenprobteller), which Simon Feilner, the director of the factory, had painted himself to show the colours that had been developed. He stated that the plate had been sent to the Elector Palatine, Carl Theodore, on 11 August 1775, and as a result he was given the title Hofkammerat, and a salary to go with it. He did not give documentary sources. Dawson read the mark inside the footring as 73 (?)
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, bluish-green, green, yellow, yellowish-brown, dull red, red-brown, brown, purple, and black) gold
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in enamels, and gilded
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: a crown over interlaced Cs
Inscription present: the words 'Revd y ' and 'Staniforth' are underlined
Accession number: EC.25-1939
Primary reference Number: 125092
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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