Plate with tiger and bamboo

Factory Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory British

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201

Known in eighteenth-century England as the "wheat sheaf and tyger pattern" (the wheat sheaf is actually a Japanese brushwood fence), this design might have been derived from either a Japanese plate or a Meissen copy of one.

Plate with tiger and bamboo, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1744–1784), Soft-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, British, Chelsea

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Plate with tiger and bamboo, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1744–1784), Soft-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, British, Chelsea
Plate with tiger and bamboo, Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (British, 1744–1784), Soft-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, British, Chelsea

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