Platter with Birds (One of a Pair)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1760
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Derby Porcelain Factory, English, established 1756
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Oval thick-bodied dish, molded with ribbed panels inside, scalloped edge, and four shell scrolls on border. Glazed overall. Interior decorated with pink four-petalled flowers in each ribbed section, and blue and yellow flowers at top, green enameled shells at sides, gilt scroll edges, and a central motif of polychrome birds, one large bird in center, one in flight, and on a branch.
place: label: manufactured in
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 Michele Beiny, in memory of her grandfather Hanns M. Weinberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1985-120-2
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: platter
label: Type
content: platter
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 × 31 × 25 cm (3 1/8 × 12 3/16 × 9 13/16 in.)