plate
- Museum number
- 2010,8028.1
- Description
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Tea plate, porcelain, moulded with a fluted pattern, decorated with a narrow border of Smith's blue enamel between gold escaloped bands (pattern 31); marked.
- Production date
- 1785-1790
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 18.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The Old Derby Pattern Books are in the Department of Prehistory & Europe, now Britain, Europe and Prehistory (1936,0715.140). There is a Tea Book I, covering patterns 1 to 282, Tea Book II, with patterns 283 to 770, and a Plate Book with table service patterns from 1 to 399. Most of the patterns are recorded with watercolour drawings.
The gilder's mark 8 is attributed to William Longdon.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Given with other examples of this pattern on Derby teawares
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2010,8028.1