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Plate

Plate

  • Place of origin:

    Derby (manufactured)

  • Date:

    1760-1765 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    William Duesbury & Co. (manufacturer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded

  • Credit Line:

    Bequeathed by Herbert Allen

  • Museum number:

    C.248-1935

  • Gallery location:

    Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 8, shelf 2

Physical description

Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. With feather moulding picked out in brown and turquoise-blue round the edge of the rim, and painted in enamels with butterflies, other insects and a branch of cherries.

Place of Origin

Derby (manufactured)

Date

1760-1765 (made)

Artist/maker

William Duesbury & Co. (manufacturer)

Materials and Techniques

Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded

Dimensions

Diameter: 21.3 cm

Object history note

One of two plates with C.248A-1935. Painted in imitation of Meissen porcelain.

Descriptive line

Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded, William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1760-1765

Materials

Soft paste porcelain; Enamels

Techniques

Painted; Moulded

Subjects depicted

Cherries; Butterflies; Insects

Categories

Ceramics; Porcelain

Collection

Ceramics Collection

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