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Plate
Plate, soft-paste porcelain with a creamy, slightly yellow translucency and crackled glaze; standing on a straight sided foot rim, curving into a rounded well with a straight everted, wavy lip; painted in enamels in the centre with a crest of an heraldic eagle with outspread wings, within the motto, 'MIGRO ET RESPICIO', on a surrounding puce garter; a wide gilt border of alternating anthemions, and stylised convolvulus flowers; plain gilt circular band around the cavetto, and to the lip ( worn ).
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 31376
Acquisition
Purchase, 23/1/1937
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 24
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
gilding
Location
In store
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