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Standing Dish


This standing dish was a functional and standard piece of dining plate. It may have been used for desserts and sweetmeats. The stylised rose design in the centre was a popular motif for domestic plate in this period.

Outside the wealthiest court circles, 17th-century silver was used primarily for eating and drinking. The dining table was the heart of social activity, and novelty items were made for fashionable new drinks flavoured with spices and drinking games. The range of British silver for the home from this period (the first for which a representative quantity survives) demonstrates increasing foreign influences from France, the Netherlands and Portugal. The rising demand for fashionably decorated European silver from the 1660s onwards reflects Britain's new wealth and political stability.

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Brief description
Silver, London hallmarks for 1627-28, mark of William Sankey
Physical description
Silver dish with five lobes, a pierced border and in the centre, a large Tudor rose. The border of the dish is pierced and chased with scrolls, strapwork and scallop shells.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.5cm
  • Diameter: 21.5cm
  • Weight: 320g
Updated with measurements taken 18/08/08
Marks and inscriptions
  • London hallmarks for 1627-28
  • Mark of William Sankey
Gallery label
(Gallery 70, case 4) 5. Standing dish in Portuguese style 1652–53 London, England; maker’s mark possibly IF Silver Museum no. Loan:Gilbert.536-2008(16/11/2016)
Credit line
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object history
The pierced and stylised rose ornamentation on this dish is typical of domestic plate of the second quarter of the century and is found, for example on a perfume burner of 1628 in the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art. (Schroder, 1988, p. 90)

Provenance: Viscount Rothermere, sale Christie's, lot 96, December 3, 1941. Rex Beaumont, sale, Christie's, lot 27, December 2, 1964. Purchased from Bulgari, New York, 1986.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This standing dish was a functional and standard piece of dining plate. It may have been used for desserts and sweetmeats. The stylised rose design in the centre was a popular motif for domestic plate in this period.

Outside the wealthiest court circles, 17th-century silver was used primarily for eating and drinking. The dining table was the heart of social activity, and novelty items were made for fashionable new drinks flavoured with spices and drinking games. The range of British silver for the home from this period (the first for which a representative quantity survives) demonstrates increasing foreign influences from France, the Netherlands and Portugal. The rising demand for fashionably decorated European silver from the 1660s onwards reflects Britain's new wealth and political stability.

Sir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes. Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.
Bibliographic reference
Schroder, Timothy. The Gilbert collection of gold and silver. Los Angeles (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 1988, cat. no. 18, pp. 90-2. ISBN.0875871445
Other number
SG 173AB - Arthur Gilbert Number
Collection
Accession number
LOAN:GILBERT.538:1-2008

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Record createdJune 26, 2008
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