Vintage Mottahedeh order Plate in Chelsea Botanical Pattern

Here you see a vintage Mottahedeh Salad Plate with a Chelsea botanical pattern made for the Metropolitan Art Museum. This pattern is from Sir Hans Sloan's paintings commissioned for Chelsea Porcelain.

Every Mottahedeh plate is a piece of art. This plate is decorated in the colors green, ocre, and magenta. It has a slightly raised rim and a maker's mark on the order bottom

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation.
He purchased the manor of Chelsea, London, in 1712, where the Chelsea Physic Garden (a botanic garden) was created.

Led from his interest in natural history, Sir Hans Sloane used his visits in this garden to make botanical drawings. The Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory published an advertisement in 1758 in Faulkner's Dublin Journal offering “Table Plates, Soup Plates, and Dessert Plates enameled from the Hans Sloane's Plants, the website Cooper Hewitt says.

This plate is in perfect vintage condition with no chips or cracks. It will make a great collection addition or a beautiful tableware.

Measures: 8" in diameter