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Rim of a plate: EC.44-1943

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: From the Aubrey Smith Collection. 'He may have found it at Longton where his family lived for a century'.

Legal notes

Exchanged by the Stoke-on-Trent Museum.

Measurements and weight

Height: 23 cm
Height: 9 1/8 in
Width: 7.2 cm
Width: 2 13/16 in

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery

Dating

18th Century, second half
George III
Production date: circa AD 1765

Note

This plate was based on a Vincennes seau à verre, with bird painting, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. See documentation.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( red, puce and grey) cobalt-blue

Materials used in production

presumed lead Lead-glaze
Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: EC.44-1943
Primary reference Number: 76975

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 29 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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