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

Plate

ca. 1750-ca. 1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular earthenware plate with waved edge, painted in colours with scrollwork and floral spray border, the centre with the infant Bacchus and companions in a landscape with ruins


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Circular earthenware plate painted in colours with the infant Bacchus and companions in a landscape with ruins, Samadet pottery factory, France, about 1750-1780
Physical description
Circular earthenware plate with waved edge, painted in colours with scrollwork and floral spray border, the centre with the infant Bacchus and companions in a landscape with ruins
Credit line
Given by W. Ridout, Esq.
Object history
Acquisition type: Gift
Production
Notes in register: 'Mr Stuart Davis informed us that there are two similar plates in the Sèvres Museum which are possibly from the factory of Samedet'. 'Mr Hans Haug expressed the same opinion, August 1936'
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.28-1925

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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