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On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Plate

ca. 1793-94 (made)
Artist/Maker
William Duesbury & Co. (manufacturer)
Boreman, Zachariah (painter)
Place of origin
Derby (manufactured)

Dessert plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. The rim is fluted and painted with a formal wreath in crimson, green and gold. In the middle a landscape in a medallion.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Soft Paste Porcelain
Painted
Gilded
Brief description
Dessert plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, painting attributed to Zachariah Boreman, manufactured by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, ca. 1793-94
Physical description
Dessert plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. The rim is fluted and painted with a formal wreath in crimson, green and gold. In the middle a landscape in a medallion.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'D' surmounted by a crown and crossed batons with six dots

    Note
    Maker's mark painted (overglaze) in blue on underside

  • 'View on the River Leder, Wales'

    Note
    Textual information painted (overglaze) in blue on underside

  • '148'

    Note
    Pattern number

Credit line
Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey
Subjects depicted
Fluted
Wreath
Landscape
Medallion
Bibliographic reference
For discussion of another service of this pattern and its design sources see A.P. Ledger, 'Further Watercolour Sources of Landscape Painting on Derby Dessert Services', Derby Porcelain International Society Journal, no. 4, 2000, pp. 8-26, which focuses on a service now at Chatsworth painted with Derbyshire landscape subjects, some of which can be matched with watercolour paintings by Zachariah Boreman and either painted by him or by others after his designs
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1279-1919

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Record createdAugust 14, 2008
Record URL
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