Plate

ca. 1780-1793 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Scalloped plate painted in enamels with flowers. Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels with gilded border.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Hard-paste porcelain plate, painted in enamels and gilded, made by Niderviller pottery and porcelain factory, France, about 1780-1793.
Physical description
Scalloped plate painted in enamels with flowers. Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels with gilded border.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
Two interlaced 'C's (In brown)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Production
A companion plate possessed by the donor bears the mark of two interlaced 'C's in blue (according to a note in the Register): this was presented by him to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (inventory no. C.2-1923). For marked plate of this shape see Aileen Dawson, Eighteenth-century French porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, 1996, cat. 216).
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.10-1922

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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