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Dessert plate, greyish, slightly grainy paste, everted rim with six wide and six small lobes, the centre decorated with the gilt monogram D under a polychrome Marquess's coronet within a broad circular cartouche of gilt and enamel beads, the rim bears five oval medallions of virtues, grisaille on a pale blue ground, together with a sixth medallion bearing the crest of a heron with a snake in its beak, all within a running border of blue and gilt floral sprays, with pink and green scrolling foliage.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 30231
Creation/Production
Caughley
Chamberlain, Worcester
Date: 1793 –
Acquisition
Purchase, 23/2/1987
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2.3
Depth
(cm): 20.6
Height
(in): 0
Depth
(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
soapstone
Location
Front Hall, North Balcony : Case F
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