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"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
This is a plate. It was manufactured by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory and after Georg Dionysius Ehret. It is dated 1754–1758 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamels. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, established in London in 1745, was a short walk from the Chelsea Physic Garden, where the firm’s painters had access to an abundance of plants for in-person study. This book Figures of the Most Beautiful… contains drawings of more than 300 specimens of plants from the Chelsea Physic Garden, which were referenced for the decoration on these ten plates. While fashionable in subject matter and style, flowers, insects, and leaves also played a practical role to disguise flaws and imperfections in the plates’ delicate porcelain and glaze
This object was
donated by
Irwin Untermyer, Esq..
It is credited Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-4
- "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-5
- "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-7
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- glazed earthenware, overglaze lustre.
- Gift of David Schafer.
- 1986-42-4
- Vase (France)
- glass.
- Gift of the Estate of Max Kobre.
- 1996-45-11
- "Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate
- soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
- 1957-11-8
Its dimensions are
H x diam.: 3.8 x 23 cm (1 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Underside: [1] an anchor, painted in iron-red overglaze (close to the rim, faded)
It is signed
Not signed
It is inscribed
Uninscribed
Cite this object as
"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve) Plate; Manufactured by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (United Kingdom); After Georg Dionysius Ehret (German, 1708 - 1770); England; soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamels; H x diam.: 3.8 x 23 cm (1 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.); Gift of Irwin Untermyer; 1957-11-6
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Botanical Expressions and Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005.
