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Plate

ca. 1830 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of earthenware painted with enamels, and with a slightly wavy edge. Painted in imitation of Chinese porcelain with a spray of flowers and formal rocks in the middle and four sprays of flowers on the rim, all in wavy panels outlined in yellow against a powder-blue ground. Flowers in yellow are between the panels on the rim. The back of the rim is also coloured with powder-blue and there is a formal flower inside a double circle on the base.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware painted with enamels
Brief description
Plate of earthenware painted with enamels, and with a slightly wavy edge, Enoch Wood & Sons, Burslem, ca. 1830.
Physical description
Plate of earthenware painted with enamels, and with a slightly wavy edge. Painted in imitation of Chinese porcelain with a spray of flowers and formal rocks in the middle and four sprays of flowers on the rim, all in wavy panels outlined in yellow against a powder-blue ground. Flowers in yellow are between the panels on the rim. The back of the rim is also coloured with powder-blue and there is a formal flower inside a double circle on the base.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • An eagle with a coat of arms for the body, and surrounded with 'ENOCH WOOD & SONS BURSLEM' (Impressed)
  • '15' (In yellow enamel)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 428 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1200-1885

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Record createdMay 6, 2009
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