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Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory
Soft-paste porcelain rim of a plate, decorated underglaze in blue and painted with birds in polychrome onglaze enamels.
Soft-paste porcelain rim of a plate, painted underglaze in blue, and with red, puce and grey enamels. The sherd is part of a wavy-edged plate with raised rim, painted with vignettes of birds in flight reserved against a runny 'mazarine-blue' ground.
History note: From the Aubrey Smith Collection. 'He may have found it at Longton where his family lived for a century'.
Exchanged by the Stoke-on-Trent Museum.
Height: 23 cm
Height: 9 1/8 in
Width: 7.2 cm
Width: 2 13/16 in
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
18th Century, second half#
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1765
This plate was based on a Vincennes seau à verre, with bird painting, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. See documentation.
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, puce and grey) cobalt-blue
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: EC.44-1943
Primary reference Number: 76975
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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