Plate
1780-1784 (made)
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Plate of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and with a figure en camaïeuin the middle of cupid among clouds in pink, kneeling and looking through a telescope and with a quiver and scroll beside him, and the rim has a gilt wavy edge and decorated with a band of foliated scrollwork in two shades of pink and with festoons of husk-pattern in grey.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and with a figure en camaïeuin the middle of cupid among clouds in pink, made by William Duesbury & Co., Derby, 1780-84 |
| Physical description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and with a figure en camaïeuin the middle of cupid among clouds in pink, kneeling and looking through a telescope and with a quiver and scroll beside him, and the rim has a gilt wavy edge and decorated with a band of foliated scrollwork in two shades of pink and with festoons of husk-pattern in grey. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Crown over 'D' (Maker's mark painted (overglaze) in purple on underside) |
| Credit line | Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber |
| Object history | One of a two plates, probably intended to symbolise History and Astronomy, with 414:472-1885 (Sch. I 398) Lady Charlotte Schreiber bought one plate from Mr Barton, Stamford, for 5 shillings in October 1875 and the other from Emerson Norman, Norwich, for 6 shillings 8 pence in December 1870 |
| Production | Illustrated in Stephen Mitchell, The Marks on Chelse-Derby and early Crossed-Batons useful wares, 1770-c.1790 (2007), pl. 70, where the plate is dated to 1780-84 and where the mark is attributed to Thomas Soare. |
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| Other number | Sch. I 398A - Schreiber number |
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| Accession number | 414:472/A-1885 |
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| Record created | August 14, 2008 |
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