Plate
ca. 1800 (made)
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By about 1800 mass-produced creamware had become almost white. This responded to changing fashions. In turn, it proved to be a perfect ground for delicate enamel painting. These thinly potted dessert plates were made at Swansea in south Wales. They show faithful reproductions of botanical specimens copied from contemporary engravings. They were probably intended primarily for display.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Creamware painted with enamels |
| Brief description | Creamware plate painted with enamels, probably painted by Thomas Pardoe, Swansea, ca. 1800. |
| Physical description | Creamware plate, earthenware painted with enamels. Decorated with a flowering plant, its leaves, bulb and root. The edge is brown. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
| Object history | After an illustration in William Curtis, Botanical Magazine, 1787. Vol. I, Pl. 4 |
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| Summary | By about 1800 mass-produced creamware had become almost white. This responded to changing fashions. In turn, it proved to be a perfect ground for delicate enamel painting. These thinly potted dessert plates were made at Swansea in south Wales. They show faithful reproductions of botanical specimens copied from contemporary engravings. They were probably intended primarily for display. |
| Bibliographic reference | Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X |
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| Accession number | 3699-1901 |
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| Record created | December 4, 2002 |
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