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

Dessert Plate

ca. 1780-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lobed tin-glazed earthenware plate with gilt chinoiserie decoration.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware and gilded
Brief description
Lobed tin-glazed earthenware plate with gilt chinoiserie decoration, probably Saint Clément pottery factory, France, about 1780-1790.
Physical description
Lobed tin-glazed earthenware plate with gilt chinoiserie decoration.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 19.1cm
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Production
Acquired as 'probably French'; pencilled attribution '?Saint Clément' in register; for comparable pieces with gilt decoration attributed to Saint Clément and dated c. 1780-90 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 114
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.95-1927

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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