Topic: Sowerby Vitro Porcelain basket weave plate

[Anne E.B.]

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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

[jsmeasell]

Aesthetic Green?

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

[Bernard C]

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

Bernard C. 

[Anne]

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

[heartofglass]

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:

[Anne E.B.]

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! 

[Bernard C]

... 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. 

[Anne E.B.]

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