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Plate
Royal Worcester - Enlarge image
Plate
- Place of origin:
Worcester, England (made)
- Date:
ca. 1770 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Royal Worcester (manufacturer)
James Giles Workshop (possibly, decorator) - Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Given by Mrs Dora E. Grubbe
- Museum number:
C.877-1935
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain & Europe, room 139, case D, shelf 2
Physical description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with black and green enamels and with a gilded border. Scalloped edge. In the well is a landscape outlined in black and washed over in green, showing a milkmaid and a boy in front of a large urn on a pedestal. To the left are cows, a house and trees, and a church at the top of a hill. Gilded border consists of linked palmettes, alternatively long and short, pointing inwards.
Place of Origin
Worcester, England (made)
Date
ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/maker
Royal Worcester (manufacturer)
James Giles Workshop (possibly, decorator)
Materials and Techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Dimensions
Diameter: 22.5 cm
Descriptive line
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, decorated in London, possibly in the workshop of James Giles, ca. 1770.
Materials
Soft-paste porcelain
Techniques
Painted; Gilded
Subjects depicted
Landscape; Trees; Boy; House; Church; Palmettes; Urn; Scalloped; Cows; Milkmaid
Categories
Porcelain; Ceramics
Collection code
CER
