Medium
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Diameter: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
British, Chelsea
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1997
Accession Number
1997.273
Tags
Art Historical Context
This exquisite dish, crafted by the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory collaboration with designer Jeffreyes Hammet ONeale around 1753–54, exemplifies the golden age of British soft-paste porcelain. Measuring just over 7 inches in diameter it hails from Chelsea's prestigious "gold anchor" period1753–c. 1769), when the factory rivaled Europe's finest producers like Meissen. O'Neale, an Irish engraver renowned for his rococo flourishes, brought intricate designs to life on this delicate medium—a porcelain formula blending clay, glass frit, and soapstone that allowed for thin, translucent bodies prize...
About the Artist
Jeffreyes Hammet O'Neale|Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British|Irish) · 1751 |1734 –2008 |1801
British, 1751–2008|Irish, 1734–1801