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Chelsea [Lawrence Street Factory]
Set of dishes c.1763
Soft-paste bone-ash porcelain | 3.7 x 38.0 x 31.1 cm (whole object) | RCIN 57019
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A set of six soft-paste bone-ash porcelain oval dishes; each with a scalloped gilt rim, the border of four shaped Mazarine blue reserves with tooled gilt insects edged by gilt scrolls, joined by swags of flowers; painted at centre with exotic birds in landscape vignettes.
Provenance
Part of a similarly decorated dinner and dessert service, known as the Mecklenberg Service, commissioned by King George III and Queen Charlotte, by whom presented to her brother, Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenberg-Strelitz in 1764. By descent until 1919; Sir Joseph Duveen: James Oakes by whom presented to Queen Elizabeth for her Silver Wedding anniversary, 1947.
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Creator(s)
(porcelain manufacturer)(manufacturer)(nationality)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Soft-paste bone-ash porcelain
Measurements
3.7 x 38.0 x 31.1 cm (whole object)
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