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Serving dish
Made at: Chelsea Manufactory (England, active 1745–1784)
English
around 1763
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain, enamel and gilding
Dimensions
34.93 cm (13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection
Accession Number60.1539
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionFrom the "Mecklenberg-Strelitz" service. Soft-paste, bone ash porcelain elliptical serving dish in the rococo style; gilt scrolls on almost flat scalloped edge brim with garlands of flowers and four 'Mazarine blue' reserves with insects in gold. Pheasants in landscape surrounded by insects in center of well. Band of gold around foot rim. Mark: gold anchor on bottom. Pitted.
Marks
Mark: gold anchor on bottom. Pitted.
ProvenanceCommissioned by King George III and Queen Charlotte; 1764, Adolphus Frederick IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenberg-Strelitz. By descent until 1919; Sir Joseph Duveen. By 1960, Jessie and Sigmund Katz. 1960, gift of Jessie and Sigmund J. Katz (Accession date: December 21, 1960)