Chelsea
(England 1744–1769)
- Title
- Plate
- Year
- circa 1760-1765
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- soft-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
2.8 x 21.4 cm diam
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.101
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
As frequently found in the gold anchor period this plate and its pair (L2012.102) have elaborate rococo moulded decoration picked out in gold. The peacock-feather border is a variation on the fine scale ground introduced at Meissen and adopted by several European factories in the 1760s.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 58 (colour illus.). cat.no. 69
