Dish
ca. 1745-ca. 1746 (made)
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Sweetmeat-dish of soft-paste porcelain. Oval with fluted sides and high spreading foot and irregular serrated edges; painted in enamels with insects and flowers concealing cracks and defects in the porcelain.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels |
| Brief description | Dish, soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels, made by Chelsea Porcelain factory, England (London), ca. 1745-1746 |
| Physical description | Sweetmeat-dish of soft-paste porcelain. Oval with fluted sides and high spreading foot and irregular serrated edges; painted in enamels with insects and flowers concealing cracks and defects in the porcelain. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street |
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| Accession number | 2878-1901 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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