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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Soup Plate

ca. 1790-ca. 1798 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Soup plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Rim is painted with yellow bands between two borders of festooned flowers and a chevron pattern in gold. Well painted with five sprigs of cornflowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Soup plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Potter and Blancheron's porcelain factory, Paris, about 1790-1798.
Physical description
Soup plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Rim is painted with yellow bands between two borders of festooned flowers and a chevron pattern in gold. Well painted with five sprigs of cornflowers.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Potter / 36' surmounted by 'B' (painted in underglaze blue)
  • '2' (painted in red enamel)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.107-1926

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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