"Hans Sloane" Botanical Plate (One of Twelve)
date: label: Date
content: 1754–1758
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, English, 1745 – 1784
label: After
content: Georg Dionysius Ehret, German, 1708 - 1770
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A plate with a wavy, brown-edged rim. Botanical decoration of a Magnolia. Thick purple and green stem with yellow, green, and purple lanceate leaves. Large flower with yellowish curling petals and cone-shaped purple and green pistil. Sprigs of yellow and blue flowers. Two large butterflies, one moth. The decoration after Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770), PLANTAE SELECTAE, 1770-1773, Tab.IX, "Magnolia..."
place: label: Place
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Irwin Untermyer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1957-11-12
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Type
content: plate
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 3.9 x 22.7 cm (1 9/16 x 8 15/16 in.)