Factory: John Ridgway & Co.
Soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, decorated with a medallion containing the arms of Ricardo impaling Duff, a motto, and flowers in polychrome enamels and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, painted in blue, red, green, yellow ochre, grey and black enamel colours, and gilt. Circular with shaped edge, wide sloping rim and shallow well, standing on a foot rim. In the centre, a medallion containing the arms of Ricardo impaling Duff with the motto TEN (Tiens) FIRME, surrounded by the words ARMA IOANNIS LUDOVICI (?) RICARDO ET KATARINAE UXORIS EIUS in blue gothic letters between narrow blue and gold bands. On the sides of the well, a dentilated gold band, a wide band between two plain gold and an anthemion like border; round the edge of the rim, an anthemion like gilt border, a plain gold band, a wide red area and a gold foliate border. The reverse is undecorated.
History note: Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve), Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Purchased from Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve) with the J. R. V. Smyth Fund.
Diameter: 25.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1990) by Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve)
19th Century, Mid#
Victorian
Circa
1841
-
1855
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue, red, green, yellow ochre, grey and black) gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Glazing (coating) : Porcelain painted in blue, red, green, yellow ochre, grey and black enamel colours, and gilt
Inscription present: with the Royal arms above
Accession number: C.8-1990
Primary reference Number: 40511
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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