Plate

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.

Physical description

Creamware plate, earthenware painted with enamels. Decorated with a flowering plant, its leaves, bulb and root. The edge is brown.

Place of Origin

Swansea, Wales (made)

Date

ca. 1800 (made)

Artist/maker

Pardoe, Thomas, born 1770 - died 1823 (probably, painter)

Materials and Techniques

Creamware painted with enamels

Marks and inscriptions

'Round leav'd cyclamen'
'S'

Dimensions

Diameter: 22.5 cm

Object history note

After an illustration in William Curtis, Botanical Magazine, 1787. Vol. I, Pl. 4

Descriptive line

Creamware plate painted with enamels, probably painted by Thomas Pardoe, Swansea, ca. 1800.

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X

Exhibition History

Flower Exhibition (Copenhagen: Kunstindustri Museum 01/10/1990-30/11/1990)

Labels and date

Plate
Probably painted by Pardoe Thomas, and probably made at the Swansea pottery, about 1805
Marks: 'S', impressed and 'Round leav'd cyclamen', written in red
Lead-glazed earthenware

3699-1901 Jermyn Street Collection [23/05/2008]

Materials

Earthenware; Enamels

Techniques

Painted

Subjects depicted

Plant

Collection code

CER

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