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

Basket

ca. 1777 (made), 1777 (modelled)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Centrepiece basket of hard-paste porcelain, with white glaze. Oval, in Louis XVI style on four paw feet, the sides with pierced guilloche ornament, laurel mouldings and garlands. Rams heads as handles.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, applied, pierced and glazed
Brief description
Centrepiece basket of white-glazed hard-paste porcelain, modelled in 1777 by Johann Carl Schönheit, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, about 1777.
Physical description
Centrepiece basket of hard-paste porcelain, with white glaze. Oval, in Louis XVI style on four paw feet, the sides with pierced guilloche ornament, laurel mouldings and garlands. Rams heads as handles.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.8cm
  • Length: 37cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords with a star, cancelled with one cut (Factory mark, in blue)
  • A line (In blue)
Credit line
Given by C. H. Campbell, Esq.
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.303-1921

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Record createdMay 24, 2005
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