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Plate from the Hope-Edwardes service
English
about 1770
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Porcelain, colored enamels, gilding
Dimensions
Other (Overall): 22.2cm (8 3/4in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Janet M. Wolfson
Accession Number1982.53
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionFrom the Hope-Edwardes service. Soft-paste porcelain, molded, shaped twleve-lobe rim, from which are six pendants, gold-tooled cornucopiae of flowers on claret ground; large off-center polychrome flower and fruit spray cluster, scattered flower sprays and plums, and two radishes. .
Marks
Unmarked
InscriptionsWolfson collection label, "W. No. 38"
ProvenanceAccording to tradition, commissioned by Sir Thomas Edwardes; 1854, sold by his descendants who took the name Hope-Edwardes in 1854. Probably Sir Henry Hope Edwares (1829-1900), 10th Bt., Wooton Hall, Ashbourne, Derbyshire; before 1914, Robert Drane (b. 1831- d. 1914), Cardiff, Wales; Sir Ian Heilbron (1886-1959); January 26, 1960, Sotheby's London, lot 152; Tilley and Co., London (dealer); February 2,1960, purchased by Janet M. Wolfson, Brookline, Mass.