Dish
(1765-1770)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
5.5 × 24.5 × 21.1 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
These four dishes on the wall are moulded in the form of leaves and have a certain trompe l’oeil quality to them, each revealing the vein structure of their leaf forms. This dish and the Chelsea dish copy forms produced by the Meissen manufactory.
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Davenport (manufacturer)
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ENGLAND (manufacturer)
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