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Title: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: Anne E.B. on February 01, 2008, 09:16:35 PM

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/011-1.jpg

Unusual colour :).  Is it puce, Pomona green or other please?  I can just make out the peacock's head in the centre, but its very worn.

TIA ;)

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: jsmeasell on February 02, 2008, 01:33:33 AM

Aesthetic Green?

See Slack, text on p. 40 and color photo on p. 71.

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: Bernard C on February 02, 2008, 03:34:30 AM

Anne & James — Yes, it's Aesthetic Green.   Cottle dates its launch to circa 1881.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: Anne on February 02, 2008, 05:36:33 AM

Puce is a purpley colour isn't it Anne, as in "he went puce with rage"... 

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: heartofglass on February 02, 2008, 08:15:06 AM

Oh lucky you, Anne! :)
Aesthetic Green it most definitely is. I would love to get any thing in this colour!
It's quite a rare colour, too, so no doubt the plate would be worth considerably more than one in one of the more common colours like turquoise blue.
There was a wonderful vase with swans & rushes made in this colour which is super-valuable & gorgeous.
B.T.W puce is a purplish/reddish-brown colour, apparently named after the French word for "flea", which is "puce". Fleas to my mind tend to be brown or black, not purple, but that's the story! :huh:

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: Anne E.B. on February 02, 2008, 04:22:38 PM

Thank you so much everyone :clap:

'Aesthetic Green' -  I like it.   I've only ever seen a white or cream(?) version, if I remember correctly.   

Doh!  Getting my colours and idioms mixed up... ::)  I don't know what I was thinking and should have checked first!  :-[

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: Bernard C on February 07, 2008, 06:11:38 AM

Quote from: heartofglass

... There was a wonderful vase with swans & rushes made in this colour [Aesthetic Green] ...

Colour photograph of this vase in From Palace to Parlour, cat no. 156.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate
Post by: Anne E.B. on February 10, 2008, 09:40:21 PM

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