Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with plants and insects. A large tulip tree flower with leaves fills the plate. The flower at upper right has upright white petals marked with orange. The stem below is purple, with yellow-green serrated leaves. A large curling leaf fills the bottom half of the plate, echoing the curve of the rim. Surrounding the stem, smaller insects and plants. At center, a purple winged insect; at four o'clock, a purple insect with folded wings; at nine o'clock, trumpet-shaped pale blue morning glory flowers; at eleven o'clock, a butterfly with brown, yellow, and purple wings.

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"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate

This is a plate. It was manufactured by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory and after Georg Dionysius Ehret. It is dated 1753–1756 and we acquired it in 1957. Its medium is soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

The Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, established in London in 1745, was a short walk from the Chelsea Physic Garden, where the firm’s painters had access to an abundance of plants for in-person study. This book Figures of the Most Beautiful… contains drawings of more than 300 specimens of plants from the Chelsea Physic Garden, which were referenced for the decoration on these ten plates. While fashionable in subject matter and style, flowers, insects, and leaves also played a practical role to disguise flaws and imperfections in the plates’ delicate porcelain and glaze

This object was donated by Irwin Untermyer, Esq.. It is credited Gift of Irwin Untermyer.

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tin-glazed earthenware.
Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw.
2008-40-1

An anatomical model of a four light purple centered white petaled flower, light brown viened Aesculus Hippocastanum, or horse chestnut. Six white stamens rise out of the center with brown seed pods at the end. A hefty green stem is glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Model, Aesculus Hippocastanum, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.5

Two antatomical models of waxy lavendar purple petaled Daphne Mezereum, commonly known as a February Daphne with five light brown seeds in the middle. They rise from a slanted green branch glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with an affixed paper label.

Model, Daphne Mezereum, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.4

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An anatomical model of a white tipped green flower and light green stemmed Rhamnus Frangula, commonly known as an alder buckthorn, glossy buckthorn, or breaking buckthorn glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with an affixed paper label.

Model, Rhamnus Frangula, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.2

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with plants and insects. At center, a large hibiscus stem, with two blooming white flowers and two buds. The petals are large and floppy, with frilled edges, around an upright purple cone-shaped center. The pointed, serrated yellow-green leaves are veined in purple; the stem is the same purple. Surrounding the flower, smaller insects and plants. At one o'clock, a purple and teal butterfly; at four o'clock, a sprig with small bell-shaped pale blue flowers; at five o'clock, a round blue-green fruit or seed pod, cut open; at six o'clock, a purple winged insect, like a dragonfly; at nine o'clock, a yellow and purple winged insect and oval-shaped blue beetle.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-9

Round white porcelain plate with wavy brown-edged rim, painted with plants and insects. At upper left, a pear-shaped green and purple papaya fruit on a short stem. Behind the fruit, sprays of purple-flowering millet grass with long green leaves and stems. At lower right, two serrated yellow-green leaves. Surrounding the plants, smaller insects and plants. At three o'clock, a brown and blue butterfly, appearing in flight; at six o'clock, a purple and yellow winged insect and small blue flowers; at nine o'clock, a purple and pale yellow winged insect; at eleven o'clock, a round purple beetle.

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate
soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamels.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer.
1957-11-6

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 3.5 x 23 cm (1 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Underside: [1] red anchor?

It is inscribed

Uninscribed

Cite this object as

"Hans Sloane" Plate Plate; Manufactured by Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (United Kingdom); England; soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel; H x diam.: 3.5 x 23 cm (1 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.); Gift of Irwin Untermyer; 1957-11-7

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Cn5H/
Accession Number 1957-11-7
Object ID 18411445