Botanical plate with spray of fruiting fig
ca. 1755
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 1 3/8 × 8 × 8 in. (3.5 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
British, Chelsea
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso Gift, Mercedes T. Bass and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016
Accession Number
2016.226
Tags
About the Artist
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory · 1744–1784
**Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory** The Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, Britain's pioneering porcelain enterprise, was founded around 1743 in Chelsea, London, by two Huguenot silversmiths: Nicholas Sprimont from Liège and Charles Gouyn. Sprimont, trained in Paris as a goldsmith before immigrating to England, brought his expertise in luxury metalwork to the venture, while Gouyn handled early sales th...