Plate
ca. 1765 (made)
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Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Wavy edge, moulded with scrollwork and picked out in gold. Decorated with a border with a pink ground and three irregular-shaped panels in reserve, and bordered with a gilt scrollwork and containing exotic birds and flowers. In the interspaced are trefoil shaped ornaments in pink and pale green, bordered with gilt rococo scrollwork and foliage. In the middle are small sprigs of flowers.
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, Chelsea Porcelain factory, Chelsea, ca. 1765. |
| Physical description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Wavy edge, moulded with scrollwork and picked out in gold. Decorated with a border with a pink ground and three irregular-shaped panels in reserve, and bordered with a gilt scrollwork and containing exotic birds and flowers. In the interspaced are trefoil shaped ornaments in pink and pale green, bordered with gilt rococo scrollwork and foliage. In the middle are small sprigs of flowers. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | An anchor (In gold) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by D. M. Currie |
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| Accession number | C.377-1921 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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