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Plate

ca. 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Peter Warburton, a partner in the New Hall porcelain factory, took out a patent for a method of transfer-printing porcelain in gold and platinum (instead of black and other enamel colours) in 1810.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain with lead glaze, painted in underglaze blue and transfer-printed in gold
Brief description
C
Physical description
Circular bread and butter plate, banded in blue and transfer-printed with children playing in a landscape
Marks and inscriptions
'WARBURTON'S PATENT' under a crown and number 846, both painted in red enamel
Credit line
Arthur Hurst Bequest
Summary
Peter Warburton, a partner in the New Hall porcelain factory, took out a patent for a method of transfer-printing porcelain in gold and platinum (instead of black and other enamel colours) in 1810.
Collection
Accession number
C.435-1940

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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