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Object Type
Museum number: 1921,1215.147.CR
Description: Plate; porcelain; turquoise bands; fruit, flowers and gilt insects.
Producer name: Factory of: Worcester Porcelain Factory; Workshop of: James Giles
Production date: 1770 (circa)
Production place: Factory in: Worcester; Workshop in: Soho (workshop of James Giles)
Materials: porcelain; gold
Technique: painted; glazed; gilded
Dimensions: Diameter: 22.60 centimetres; Diameter: 8.90 inches
Curator's comments: Text fro Dawson 2007: This lavishly decorated dessert plate is one of the most unusual and attractive pieces in the British Museum collection. It is painted with flowers and fruit in shaped panels and with a series of richly gilt butterflies on a turquoise ground enclosed by feathery gilt scrolls forming a cross. Whether it was ever used or was merely a display piece, the fruit and cut fruit are particularly appropriate. In Frank Lloyd coll. by 1910
Bibliographic references: Hobson 1910 / Worcester porcelain: a description of the ware from the Wall period to the present day (pl. LXIV, fig.6); Dawson 2007 / The Art of Worcester Porcelain 1751-1788, Masterpieces from the British Museum collection (pp.206-7, no.85)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: flower; insect; fruit
Acquisition name: Donated by: Frank Lloyd; Donated by: Mrs Frank Lloyd
Acquisition date: 1921
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1921,1215.147.CR

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