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White earthenware toy service dessert plate, bat-printed in puce with a mother and child.
Dessert plate, from part of a toy dinner service. White earthenware with pale-blue tinted glaze, bat-printed in puce and banded in blue enamel. Circular with narrow rim. The plate is decorated with a mother seated on a square box with a nude child kneeling on her knee, a vase to the left, and a large bowl to the right.
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother Betha Wolferstan Rylands.
Height: 1.0 cm
Width: 9.0 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1997) by Rylands, G.H.W.
Early 19th Century
Circa
1815
CE
-
1825
CE
English, probably Staffordshire or Tyneside
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue)
Lead-glazing : White earthenware with pale-blue tinted glaze, bat-printed in puce and banded in blue enamel.
Accession number: C.80.11-1997
Primary reference Number: 76081
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Dessert plate" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76081 Accessed: 2023-06-10 23:38:07
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Accession Number: C.80.8-1997
Accession Number: C.80.9-1997
Accession Number: C.80.13-1997
Accession Number: C.80.12-1997
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