Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Oval thick-bodied dish, molded with ribbed panels inside, scalloped edge, and four shell scrolls on border. Glazed overall. Interior decorated with pink four-petalled flowers in each ribbed section, and blue and yellow flowers at top, green enameled shells at sides, gilt scroll edges, and a central motif of polychrome birds, one large bird in center, one in flight, and on a branch.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756
- Date
- ca. 1760
- Credit Line
- Gift of Michele Beiny, in memory of her grandfather Hanns M. Weinberg
- Medium
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8 × 31 × 25 cm (3 1/8 × 12 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- platter
- Type
- platter
