Assiette
Plate
1778 (made)
1778 (made)
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Plate, soft-paste porcelain, plain round, deep well, medallion decoration painted in enamels and gilt on a bleu celeste ground. Rim hole.
Object details
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| Title | Assiette (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Plate, porcelain, medallion decoration painted in enamels and gilt on a bleu celeste ground, Sèvres porcelain factory, France, 1778 |
| Physical description | Plate, soft-paste porcelain, plain round, deep well, medallion decoration painted in enamels and gilt on a bleu celeste ground. Rim hole. |
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| Object history | Bought for £15 From the service made for Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, in 1778. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Savill, Rosalind. The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols. London: Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1988. See Vol. II, pp. 762-781 for a discussion of the Catherine II service. For an account of the movement of some items (including this plate) from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg following a fire in 1837 to London by 1840, see p. 767 and note 77. |
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| Accession number | 3644-1856 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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