Plate (part of a service)

Plate (part of a service) by Derby Porcelain Manufactory

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Dimensions

Diam. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.)

Classification

Ceramics-Porcelain

Culture

British, Derby

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895

Accession Number

95.6.5

About the Artist

Derby Porcelain Manufactory · 17511785

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 ...

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