Plate
ca. 1820 (made)
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Plate, part of a dessert service. The plate has six lobes, with alternate indentations and points, and a pie-crust moulded edge, emphasised with gilt decoration. Decorated with four panels alternately painted with birds and flowers, in enamel colours, on a dark underglaze blue ground ornamented with gilt. The centre is decorated with a stylised octagonal motif of alternate lyres and foliate sprays.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt on an underglaze blue ground |
| Brief description | Plate, part of a dessert service, porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt on an underglaze blue ground; Coalport Porcelain Factory, England, ca. 1820 |
| Physical description | Plate, part of a dessert service. The plate has six lobes, with alternate indentations and points, and a pie-crust moulded edge, emphasised with gilt decoration. Decorated with four panels alternately painted with birds and flowers, in enamel colours, on a dark underglaze blue ground ornamented with gilt. The centre is decorated with a stylised octagonal motif of alternate lyres and foliate sprays. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss D. B. Simpson |
| Object history | Part of a dessert service with confituriere, cover and stand and two plates, C.87 to D-1977. |
| Production | Factory of John Rose |
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| Bibliographic reference | Godden, G.A. Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains, 1970, plate 131. |
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| Accession number | C.87C-1977 |
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| Record created | May 11, 2010 |
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