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

Serving Dish

ca. 1749-1753 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lobed oval serving dish painted with flowers and scattered sprigs


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware serving dish painted in colours, made in Strasbourg, about 1749-1753
Physical description
Lobed oval serving dish painted with flowers and scattered sprigs
Object history
This piece and C.10-1961 are from a 40-piece service sold Sotheby's 28 February 1961, lots 13-40.
Acquisition type: Purchase
Production
Others from this service bear the painter's mark 'iK', possibly for Ignatius Kraemer (recorded at the factory in 1731) or Johann Kugelmann (recorded 1740). The painting is similar to pieces associated with the painter Christian-Wilhelm Löwenfink (see also C.579-1909 and C.25-1929), and compare Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 36-7, and Historiches Museum, Basel, Strassburger Keramik, 1986, cat. 116-17.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.9-1961

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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