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

Footed Dish

1782 (dated)
Place of origin

Flat dish on a high foot, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in polychrome colours with flowers in blue, yellow, green and brown in thge centra, surrounded with athink band of yellow decoration and on the rim 'BITORIA: XIL ANO DE 1782' is written with brown enamel on a white background. There are sprigs and blue dots on the rest of the dish.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, enamel, painted, thrown
Brief description
Dish on foot, tin-glazed earthenware, decorated with enamels, inscripted; 'BITORIA: XIL ANO DE 1782', made in Talavera or Puente del Arzbispo, Spain, dated 1782.
Physical description
Flat dish on a high foot, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in polychrome colours with flowers in blue, yellow, green and brown in thge centra, surrounded with athink band of yellow decoration and on the rim 'BITORIA: XIL ANO DE 1782' is written with brown enamel on a white background. There are sprigs and blue dots on the rest of the dish.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.9cm
  • Diameter: 24.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'BITORIA: XIL ANO DE 1782'
Gallery label
Dish on foot Made in Talavera or Puente del Arzbispo, Spain dated 1782 Inscription: 'BITORIA: XIL ANO DE 1782' Tin-glazed earthenware C.111-1995 Presented by the Friends of the Victoria and Albert Museum(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Supported by the Friends of the V&A
Bibliographic reference
Ray, Anthony. Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 : with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, V&A Publications, 2000
Other number
350 - Spanish pottery, Ray (2000)
Collection
Accession number
C.111-1995

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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