The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Plate from Dessert Service: French Marigold
c. 1800
made by
(British)
Diameter: 23.4 cm (9 3/16 in.); Overall: 3.4 cm (1 5/16 in.)
Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.189.1
Location: not on view
Description
Each dish is decorated with recognizable plants, the names of which are inscribed on the base in both Latin and English. Identifying the blossoms only became customary in the late 18th century when a single piece of porcelain was decorated with one species, and flowers were represented along with leaves, stems, seed pods, and roots. All of this reflects Carolus Linnaeus’s recent invention of a scientific method to categorize all known flora. The decorations on the Derby factory’s products derive from contemporary English botanical publications. For instance, illustrations in William Curtis’s The Botanical Magazine served as models for the French marigold and nettle-leaved bell flower on the dessert service.- (Stair & Co., New York); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1953.
- The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.189.1