plate
- Museum number
- 1996,0603.2
- Description
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Plate; earthenware with pierced basket-weave border with transfer-printed and hand-coloured decoration of a bumblebee and a string of bird's eggs in speckled blue, white and buff placed asymetrically; a broken egg at the left.
- Production date
- 1870
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Coleman based this service on the French 'Service Rousseau' designed by Félix Bracquemond in 1867. Both services employ the random scattering of naturalistic motifs onto the wares and both have become synonymous with the Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1996,0603.2
