IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131197 accession number: C.8-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Soft-paste porcelain botanical plate, painted in polychrome enamels with plants and insects title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131197 SUBJECTS ------------------- butterfly insects convolvulus butterfly insects convolvulus TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded and decorated overglaze with plants and insects in polychrome enamels moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1756 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1756 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain Sir Hans Sloane's Plants G.D. Ehret's Botanical Designs on Chelsea Porcelain Chelsea Porcelain British Ceramics The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain ---