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Plate, dessert
Plate, soft-paste porcelain, greyish paste with a creamy brown translucency, slight shrinkage of the glaze at foot rim; standing on a shallow foot rim, dish-shaped with pronounced cavetto and waved, fluted rim; the centre painted in polychrome enamels with a river flowing between rocky cliffs, clad with trees, a distant landscape beyond, two large rocks in the river mottled with red and green lichen, shaded greyish sky, in a circular reserve framed by a blue line edged with gold and gilt sprays, rim with pendant leaves in gilt below a blue border and dentil edge.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 33792
Creation/Production
Duesbury, William & Co, Derby
Jones, Thomas
Date: 1787 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 2/12/1998
Measurements
Height
(cm): 3
diam
(cm): 22.6
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 8
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
Location
In store
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