plate
Summary
Public: Plate, soft paste porcelain, figure of Polymnia, painted in green, blue, yellow, brown, mauve and iron red enamel colours. Private: Plate, soft paste porcelain. Circular, with shallow well in centre and broad rim moulded with four panels of scrolling foliage and a rim of beading. Painted in green, blue, yellow, brown, mauve and iron red enamel colours in the centre with the muse Polymnia, wearing a laurel wreath and classical costume, standing in a landscape on a low plinth inscribed in Greek. In reserved panels on the rim four miniature scenes of dwarfs in landscapes, painted and tooled in two colours of gold.
Object Name
plate
Creators Name
Date Created
1780 - 1782
accession number
1917.409
Collection Group
Place of creation
Naples
Medium
Credit
Leicester Collier Bequest
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