Assiette unie
Plate
1784 (made)
1784 (made)
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Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Six large and six small-lobed form. In the centre is a bird in a landscape on white. Round the rim on a green oeil-de-perdrix ground diapered with white dots are three panels containing birds alternating with three oval medallions containing portrait-heads in profile in grisaille.
Object details
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| Title | Assiette unie (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded |
| Brief description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, 1784. |
| Physical description | Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Six large and six small-lobed form. In the centre is a bird in a landscape on white. Round the rim on a green oeil-de-perdrix ground diapered with white dots are three panels containing birds alternating with three oval medallions containing portrait-heads in profile in grisaille. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr John George Joicey |
| Object history | Painted with birds after Buffon's 'Natural History'. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Verlet, Pierre. Sèvres. Paris, 1953. See plate 100d for a plate from the same service in the Musée Nationale de Céramique. Verlet links this plate to C.1410-1919, suggesting they belonged to a service ordered by Lefébure of Amsterdam 29 December 1784, comprising 48 plates at 66 livres each. |
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| Accession number | C.1410-1919 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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