Plate
1816-1820 (made), 1818-1823 (decorated)
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Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with view of Esher Place and other small views. Lobed rim moulded with scrollwork and flowers in relief enriched by gilding and panels painted with minute views of country seats or ruins. In the middle is a landscape of Esher Place, Surrey. In the small panels on the rim are Benham in Berkshire, Hales Owen, West Clandon Place in Surrey, Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire, Valle Crucis Abbey in Denbighshire, and Brocket Hall in Hartfordshire.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded |
| Brief description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Nantgarw China Works, Nantgarw, 1816-1820, decorated in London 1816-1823. |
| Physical description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with view of Esher Place and other small views. Lobed rim moulded with scrollwork and flowers in relief enriched by gilding and panels painted with minute views of country seats or ruins. In the middle is a landscape of Esher Place, Surrey. In the small panels on the rim are Benham in Berkshire, Hales Owen, West Clandon Place in Surrey, Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire, Valle Crucis Abbey in Denbighshire, and Brocket Hall in Hartfordshire. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | NANT-GARW C.W' (Impressed) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Herbert Allen |
| Object history | Landscapes copied from engravings published between 1792-1802 in 'The Copper Plate Magazine. Possibly made at Swansea from Billingsley's recipe, and the decoration not carried out at the Nantgarw or Swansea factory. Formerly in the Alfred Trapnell Collection. |
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| Accession number | C.589-1935 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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