Flower Holder
c. 1790
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels and gilding
Dimensions
11.7 × 21.6 × 12.7 cm (4 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 5 in.)
Classification
porcelain
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
90939
Art Historical Context
Step into the refined world of late 18th-century English porcelain with this exquisite *Flower Holder* from the Porcelain Manufactory, crafted around 1790. Standing at 11.7 × 21.6 × 12.7 cm, this delicate piece exemplifies the manufactory's reputation for producing luxurious tableware and decorative objects during Britain's porcelain boom. Derby, one of England's premier factories since the 1750s, was renowned for its soft-paste porcelain—a European innovation that mimicked the translucent quality of coveted Chinese hard-paste porcelain but fired at lower temperatures, allowing for intricate s...
About the Artist
Derby Porcelain Manufactory · 1751–1785
The Derby Porcelain Manufactory stands as one of the foundational institutions of British ceramic art, producing some of the finest figures and tablewares made in England during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its origins can be traced to the work of André Planché, a Huguenot immigrant from Saxony who settled in Derby around 1745 and began producing soft-paste porcelain figures and ...