Photo © Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by David Harris

Dish and plate
ca. 1755
Porcelain
Dish - W: 25 cm; Plate - Diam: 22.5 cm
Gift of David Berg, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum, In memory of his mother Ida Berg
Accession number: B82.0725(a-b)
 
 
Chelsea porcelain dish and plate.
The dish, with a red anchor mark (1752-56), is in the form of a leaf with a yellow-green edge, moulded veins picked out in red and the center painted with a spray of blue vetch.
The plate, with a brown anchor mark (1752-56), is decorated in the center in soft greens, with butterflies, fruit and a radish.

Publications:
The Eighteenth Century English Dining Room, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Digital presentation of this object was made possible by: The Ridgefield Foundation, New York, in memory of Henry J. and Erna D. Leir