id: 154583 accession number: 1989.189.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.189.2 updated: 2022-01-04 17:06:03.575000 Plate from Dessert Service: Nettle Leaved Bell Flower, c. 1800. Derby (Crown Derby Period) (British). Porcelain; diameter: 23.4 cm (9 3/16 in.); overall: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.189.2 title: Plate from Dessert Service: Nettle Leaved Bell Flower title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1800 creation date earliest: 1795 creation date latest: 1805 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin copyright: --- culture: England, Derby, 18th century technique: porcelain department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Derby (Crown Derby Period) (British) - made by the "Crown Derby" period began in 1784 when the factory adopted a crowned D as its mark. --- measurements: Diameter: 23.4 cm (9 3/16 in.); Overall: 3.1 cm (1 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: inscribed in blue on back: Campanula Triechelium./Nettle Leaved Bell Flower./crown/crossed batons and dots/D/115. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Flowering of the Botanical Print opening date: 2016-03-26T00:00:00 The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Stair & Co., New York); Severance and Greta Millikin, Cleveland, 1953. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hawley, Henry. "European Porcelain: The Millikin Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 1 (1993): 3-35. page number: Reproduced: p. 29, 31; Mentioned: p. 29-31, 35 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161384 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.189.2/1989.189.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.189.2/1989.189.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.189.2/1989.189.2_full.tif