Plate
Derby Porcelain Works
Category
Ceramics
Date
1795 - 1805
Materials
Soft paste porcelain, Gilding
Measurements
238 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Derby
Order this imageCollection
Basildon Park, Berkshire
NT 266578.4
Summary
Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated with a red flower, pink border and gilding, pattern number 212. From a part dessert service consisting of one tazza, three plates and a dish. Made by the Derby Porcelain Factory, about 1795-1805. After a painting by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819), engraved by Francis Sansom and published by William Curtis in The Botanical Magazine [No.321](1 December, 1795). Title painted on base: 'Cotyledon Orbiculata; Round Leaved Navel Wort'
Provenance
Bequest of R. C. Sneyers, The Rectory, Milford, Godalming, Surrey, 1988.
Makers and roles
Derby Porcelain Works, factory after Sydenham Edwards (1768 - 1819), artist after Sansom, Francis, engraver (printmaker) after William Curtis (1746-1799), publisher
References
Ledger 1991: A. P. Ledger, 'Derby 'Botanical' Dessert Services, 1791-1811; A Research Study', Derby Porcelain International Society, Vol.2 (1991), pp.79-102.