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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Ewer and Cover

ca. 1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Moulded and painted with scalloping, scrollwork and flowers, the ornament picked out in purple


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Ewer
  • Ewer Cover
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware ewer, painted with flowers, made at Lunéville pottery factory, France, ca. 1760-1770
Physical description
Moulded and painted with scalloping, scrollwork and flowers, the ornament picked out in purple
Credit line
Purchased through the Bequest of Captain H. B. Murray
Object history
Bought from the Rosenheim Sale 3 May 1923, lot 218, where described as a Höchst rosewater ewer and dish (for dish, which does not match, see C.251B-1923)
Production
Catalogued as Höchst in the Rosenheim sale; acquired as Marseilles; examined in 1931 by Hans Haug, Director of Strasbourg Museum, who suggested an attribution to a Lorraine factory; reattributed to Lunéville, c. 1760-80; for an example attributed to Lunéville and dated 1760-70 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 108 (top). For another of this shape but lacking cover see 2995-1853. Illustrated in Arthur Lane, French Faïence, 1948, pl. 80, where described as 'perhaps Lunéville, about 1750-70'.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.251-1923

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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