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

Plate

ca.1780-85 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cake plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Fluted with a scalloped edge. Decorated with a medallion in the centre with a classical urn festooned with flowers within a turquoise-blue husk pattern wreath, of bunches of fruit and insects, and a formal border in bleu de roiand gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Cake plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca.1780-85
Physical description
Cake plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Fluted with a scalloped edge. Decorated with a medallion in the centre with a classical urn festooned with flowers within a turquoise-blue husk pattern wreath, of bunches of fruit and insects, and a formal border in bleu de roiand gold.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
An open crescent (In blue)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Part of a tea service with C.380 to P-1935.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Godden, Geoffrey. Chamberlain-Worcester Porcelain; 1788-1852. London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1982.
Collection
Accession number
C.380P-1935

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Record createdJuly 2, 2009
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