plate
- Museum number
- 1940,0401.12
- Description
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Plate; porcelain; painted in crimson with farm-hands amongst ruins; floral sprays on border; rim gilt.
- Production date
- 1765-1770 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 22.40 centimetres
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Diameter: 8.90 inches
- Curator's comments
- Text from Dawson 2007:
There are around twelve surviving Worcester porcelain plates painted in puce with landscape scenes in the centre and five scattered flower sprays on the border, and embellished with gilding on the shaped rim. One belonged to a descendant of James Giles, Mrs Dora Edgell Grubbe, who presented it with three other Worcester painted plates to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1935, Ever since, these so-called 'Grubbe plates' have been taken as reference points for the painting done on Worcester porcelains at James Giles's workshop in London. Like the V & A plate, this one has figures near a ruin. The placing of the architectural elements in relationship to the figures is particularly pleasing, and the scene is reminiscent in both the palette and the subject of painting on contemporary porcelains from Tournai (now in Belgium).
For another similar plate see S. Spero & J. Sandon, 'Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, the Zorensky Collection', Woodbridge, 1996, no. 425.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc21)
- Condition
- April 2006 - very minor rubbing to gilding.
- Acquisition date
- 1940
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1940,0401.12