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Plate, soft-paste porcelain, circular shape with rounded foot-rim, cushion-moulded sides and spreading rim, the rim moulded with a basketwork pattern and with a shaped edge; decorated in polychrome enamels in the Kakiemon style with to the centre of the well a version of the 'banded hedge and squirrel' pattern, showing a conventionalised vine, and a squirrel and another animal leaping over banded hedges, around the sides of the well and the rim sprays of oriental flowers, insects and exotic birds.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 35886
Creation/Production
Samson
Date: 1880-1890 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 1/2/1918
Given by W.S de Winton
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.9
diam
(cm): 23.5
Height
(in): 1
diam
(in): 9
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
enamel
glaze
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case A
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