Plate with Flowers

Ceramic

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Drexel Founding Collection

#172, Photographed by Mary Elizabeth Kulesa, 2024: Upper Surface
#172, Photographed by Mary Elizabeth Kulesa, 2024

Upper Surface

Name/Title

Plate with Flowers

Entry/Object ID

172

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Mrs. George W. Childs, Philadelphia

Notes

Date: 1911 Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. George W. Childs Means of Accession: gift Source: Collection Count Diego Bouglie of Naples; Said to have belonged to Queen Carolina of Naples and Sicily, sister of Marie Antoinette

Made/Created

Artist

Royal Vienna Porcelain

Date made

1796

Place

City

Vienna

Country

Austria

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

1-3/8 in

Diameter

9-1/2 in

Material

Hard paste porcelain

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

A number of plates from the Vienna Porcelain Factory were decorated with bouquets of flowers and fruit. At first the naturalistic floral paintings were copied, but soon the porcelain painters began experimenting with the colors and arrangements, creating richer imagery.