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

Bowl

1737 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Large circular bowl painted in colours, the centre with a butcher slaughtering an ox and surrounded by the tools of his trade and by the inscription '.Louis.Duval.Marie.Louise.Fançois [sic].Grenier.1737' painted in blue, the border painted with lambrequin ornament and stylised plants; the footrim has two glazed suspension holes


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware bowl, painted in blue with an inscription and a farming scene. France, made in Paris, dated 1737.
Physical description
Large circular bowl painted in colours, the centre with a butcher slaughtering an ox and surrounded by the tools of his trade and by the inscription '.Louis.Duval.Marie.Louise.Fançois [sic].Grenier.1737' painted in blue, the border painted with lambrequin ornament and stylised plants; the footrim has two glazed suspension holes
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 31.7cm
  • Height: 8.8cm
  • Weight: 1.220kg
Marks and inscriptions
  • (A large blue cross on the bottom)
  • '.Louis.Duval.Marie.Louise.Fançois.Grenier.1737.' (In blue)
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Production
dated 1737 Acquired as Paris, 1737. For similar bowl attributed to Paris and dated 1724 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 132, bottom.
Collection
Accession number
C.629-1909

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Record createdJune 23, 2004
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