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Dessert plate, yellowish soapstone porcelain, standing on a shallow foot rim, plain border; painted with a polychrome view of Ackworth School, West Yorkshire, a two storey thirteen bay building with pedimented centrepiece linked by colonades to two similar wings at right angles, and with a landscape including a house and bridge with a shepherd and his dog in the foreground, extending over the whole well of the plate, gilt cavetto and rim with a salmon pink ground within a gilt line border.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30128
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/12/1953
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3.4
Depth
(cm): 22.9
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
painted
decoration
Applied Art
enamels
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
soapstone
Location
In store
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