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Dish SM B43. ©Sir John Soane's Museum. Photo: Lewis Bush.
Plate, Chinese or Japanese
Overglaze decoration with enamels and traces of gilding
Inscription: There are no marks
Museum number: B43
On display: Bath Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
This plate is decorated with flowers (perhaps including a poppy, carnation and peony along with small blue flowers resembling gentians) and a border featuring insects (styalised butterflies) flowers and cartouches containing blue foliage (bamboo?). There is no decoration on the underside.
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