Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
4.8 × 12.9 cm diameter (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
© Public Domain
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The claret ground was first employed at Chelsea around 1760 and was one of several experimental ground colours introduced by Nicholas Sprimont, the proprietor at this time. These grounds were expensive to produce and notoriously unstable.