Plate: C.8-1992

Maker(s)

Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

Entities

• Plate

Categories

• Soft-paste porcelain

Description

Soft-paste porcelain botanical plate, painted in polychrome enamels with plants and insects

Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, glazed, and painted in green, yellow, dark pink, greyish-purple, red, dark reddish-brown, and black enamels. Circular with a slightly up-turned, shaped edge, sloping rim and deep well, standing on a footring; three spur marks on base. The front is decorated with a dark pink convolvulus or Indian bindweed plant, curved to occupy the whole area, accompanied by a butterfly and three other insects, painted with shadowed outlines. A maroon line encircles the edge of rim.

Notes

History note: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1988 (Statham Loan 2-1988). Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum

Place(s) associated

• Chelsea ⪼ Middlesex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Allocated (1992-01-20) by H.M. Government

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Red anchor period (1752-1756)
Circa 1755 CE - 1756 CE

Note

The design was probably derived from Georg Dionysius Ehret, 'Plantae et Papiliones Rariores', 1748-62, pl. VII, with the inscription Convolvulus Indicus, flore amplo roseo. Miller Dict, and the detail, of the flower pl. VIII. The last two words of the inscription refer to Phillip Miller's 'The Gardeners Dictionary', (editions in 1731, 1739, 1754, and 1768), where in vol. I, Miller described the various types of convolvulus.

School or Style

botanical
Rococo