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

Dish

1550-60 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Flattish plate with small foot-rim; tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, orange, yellow and grey. In the centre, an escutcheon of arms with a paw holding a fleur-de-lys marked with F and small c. On the rim large trophies of arms and music in grisaille with little scrolls scratched through the blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Flat dish depicting coat of arms in the middle, Marches, mid 16th century, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Flattish plate with small foot-rim; tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, orange, yellow and grey. In the centre, an escutcheon of arms with a paw holding a fleur-de-lys marked with F and small c. On the rim large trophies of arms and music in grisaille with little scrolls scratched through the blue ground.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.9cm
Gallery label
Dish depicting coat of arms in the middle Marches mid 16th century Tin-glazed earthenware 4383-1857(16/07/2008)
Production
Not in Rackham.

J Mallet
Paw holding fleur-de-lys marked with in strapwork blue F and small c.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
4383-1857

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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