Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Plants

Date: 1822 - 1825

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 9.75 in (24.765 cm)

Maker: Minton

Maker's Mark:

Painted

Description:

A single shell handled porcelain dessert plate in pattern number 322. The plate has a molded gadroon gilded rim with an inner gilded dontil band.  On glaze printed in blue, fired in glaze (blue colour had to be fired at a higher temperature and, as a consequence, the print then sank into the glaze) with central flower print and four smaller flower prints around the rim.  Marked on the base with 322 hand painted in gold. 

 

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