Pair of Caughley plates

Caughley Porcelain Manufactory (active 1772 - 1799)

Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery (Rowley's House)

1780

Plates with a fluted rim, the central reserve is painted in blue underglaze with an insect hovering above a flowering oriental shrub. The rim is powder blue painted with six sections of stylised oriental flowers and Buddist emblems. Underside has a narrow blue band on either side of the foot and 3 trailing branches in blue on the underside of the rim.

• Medium: pottery
• Dimensions: 21 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £100 ( Total: £100)
• ArtFunded in: 1970
• Vendor: Sotheby's

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