plate

Royal Naples Factory



plate

Royal Naples Factory

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

Royal Naples Factory

Date Created

1780 - 1782

accession number

1917.409

Place of creation

Naples

Medium

Credit

Leicester Collier Bequest

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