IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131174 accession number: C.13B-1918 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain plate, moulded, coated with lead-glaze containing tin-oxide to make it white and opaque, 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain plate, moulded and painted overglaze with flowers and butterflies in polychrome enamels. title: plate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ralph Griffin creditline: Given by Ralph Griffin, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131174 SUBJECTS ------------------- butterflies flowers butterflies flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded, coated in lead-glaze containing tin-oxide to make it white and opaque, and painted in polychrome enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1752 - 1754 creation date earliest: 1752 creation date latest: 1754 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.9 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 1 3/8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Refugee Silver: Huguenots in Britain CITATIONS -------- A Taste of Elegance, Eighteenth Century English Porcelain from Private Collections in Ontario The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain ---