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Plate, dessert
Plate, soft-paste porcelain, greyish paste with a creamy brown translucency, standing on a shallow foot rim, dish-shaped with pronounced cavetto and waved, fluted rim; the centre painted in polychrome enamels with a circular titled scene, 'View in / Macnarthen' [sic], featuring a waterfall on Nant Cell, a tributary of the Ystwyth, as it begins its steep descent to join the river in the gorge, just west of the village of Pontrhydygroes; framed by a blue line edged with gold and gilded sprays, the rim with gilded pendant leaves below a blue border and gilded dentil edge.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39652
Creation/Production
Duesbury, William & Co, Derby
Boreman, Zachariah
Jones, Thomas
Date: 1787 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 10/4/2019
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.8
diam
(cm): 22.6
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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