Flora Danica Dessert Plate
Production: Royal Danish Porcelain Factory
Porcelain dessert plate painted in green, yellow and brown enamels with a buttercup from Flora Danica, surrounded by a gilded border. The latin name, Ranunculus bulbosus L. is painted on the back in black.
Dessert plate. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, and brown enamels and gilded. Circular with twelve shallow serrated arcs on the outer edge, slightly sloping rim pierced by a shaped row of sloping rectangular and triangular holes, and a shallow, curved well, standing on a footring. The well is decorated with a buttercup plant whose roots extend over the side of the well onto the rim . The edges of the piercing are outlined in gilding, and have three circles enclosing a dot level with the indentations between the arcs on the edge. The two above the plant are flanked by leaves, and one on each sides by a buttercup and a bud. Outside the piercing there is a row of raised gold dots, and round the outer edge, a series of small panels containing gold stylized plants. The back is inscribed in black enamel with the plant name: 'Ranunculus bulbosus L.' in flowing script.
History note: The donor's family
Given by Mrs E. Ruhlmann
Diameter: 25.3 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2003) by Ruhlman, Elizabeth, Mrs
19th Century, Late#
Victoria I
Circa
1890
CE
-
1894
CE
The design was taken from plate 551 of 'Flora Danica' , see Flora Danica Online, www.pictures.dnlb.dk
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow, and brown enamels, also black for inscription)
gilt
Border
Moulding : Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, and brown enamels and gilded.
Inscription present: flowing script with elaborate L
Inscription present: the DENMARK is curved round the lower part of the circle
Inscription present: the line between the numbers is horizontal
Accession number: C.3-2003
Primary reference Number: 93482
Entry form: 181
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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