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Pair of Caughley plates

Caughley Porcelain Manufactory, 1780

Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Shrewsbury

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.

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Title of artwork, date

Pair of Caughley plates, 1780

Date supported

1970

Medium and material

Pottery

Dimensions

21 cm

Grant

100

Total cost

100

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