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Tournai Porcelain Factory (porcelain factory, founded 1750 by François Joseph
Peterinck)
Dessert plate, soft-paste porcelain, good translucency with greenish tinge, the glaze with slight blue inclusion and specks of grit; circular, standing on a shallow footrim, flat, with low cavetto and plain everted rim; the centre printed on-glaze in black with a parrot perched on a stunted tree, overpainted in enamels, the rim with a rich on-glaze blue ground between two worn gilt lines, scattered with gilt ermine tails, and reserved with three shaped rectangular panels each printed and painted with a bird in a landscape, and with three oval medallions, two decorated with butterflies and one with a beetle.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33664
Creation/Production
Tournai Porcelain Factory
Date: 1787 ca.
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 23.2
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
printed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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