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| Title | armorial plate bearing the arms of Wood of Islington, Middlesex | |
| Collection | Artworld: Oriental Museum | |
| Date | 1740 CE (circa) | |
| Description | Export ware plate, part of an English armorial service. Very finely potted porcelain plate with a narrow unglazed foot rim. The plate is decorated inside in coloured overglaze enamels and gilt with a coat of arms with wolf crest in the centre, surrounded by two narrow bands of spearhead border, one around the rim and the other around the side of the bowl. The plate is covered with an even translucent glaze, except for the foot rim. |
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| Description Source | Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 80 | |
| Cultural Context | Chinese | |
| Id Number Current Accession | 1969.29 | |
| Id Number Former Accession | MacDonald cat. 388 | |
| Location Creation Site | Zhonghua, Jiangxi, Jingdezhen | |
| Location Current Repository | The Oriental Museum | |
| Subject | receptacle/vessel, plate | |
| Measurements | 227 x 42 x 227 mm | |
| Context | The arms of Wood of Islington, Middlesex. | |
| Context Source | OMDB | |
| Rights | Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved | |
| Rights Owner | OM | |
| Style Period | Qing Dynasty, Qianlong | |
| Work Type | plate | |
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