AI interpretation of Derby bellflower plate.
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Overview

This porcelain dessert plate presents nettle-leaved bellflower within a decorated rim. Its base identifies the plant in English and Latin. Cleveland connects the service’s botanical designs to illustrations in William Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, placing painted tableware alongside contemporary printed botany.

Made during Derby’s Crown Derby period, the plate measures 23.4 cm across. Its recorded history names Stair & Co. and the Millikins in 1953; Cleveland received it through Greta Millikin’s bequest.

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History & identity

Crown Derby period

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Sources & representation

Institutional object account.

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    Cleveland Museum of Art online catalogue: Plate from Dessert Service: Nettle Leaved Bell Flower (1989.189.2)

    Cleveland Museum of Art

    Undated online publication; manufacture date and record timestamps are separate.

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  1. Primary institutional object recordPlate from Dessert Service: Nettle Leaved Bell Flower — Cleveland Museum of Art 1989.189.2Research access: 2026-10-21

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