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Dish
Caughley Porcelain Factory - Enlarge image
Dish
- Place of origin:
Caughley (made)
Worcester (decorated) - Date:
ca. 1783-1792 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Caughley Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Chamberlain's factory (decorator) - Materials and Techniques:
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
- Credit Line:
Given by Alfred Darby, Esq.
- Museum number:
C.131-1921
- Gallery location:
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case H, shelf 4
The dish matches a sherd excavated on the site of the Wirksworth porcelain factory in Derbyshire, and it is possible that the dish was made from a plaster mould purchased at the sale of the Wirksworth factory in 1777. A letter of 1778 shows that Thomas Turner, the manger of the Caughley works, thought highly of the products of the Wirksworth factory.