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

Dish

1725-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
'Greek A' Factory (maker)
Place of origin
Delft (made)

Two concentric bands with cartouches with floral decorations and insects painted in blue only. Coat of arms surmounted by a crown and with a crest of a stag and motto in banderol "PENSEZ PUIS PARLE" in blue, yellow and brownish red. Brown rim. Concentric circles on the back.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Delftware
Earthenware
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Painted
Brief description
Armorial dish with arms and motto, tin-glazed earthenware, probably made at the factory "De Grieksche A", Delft, 1725-60
Physical description
Two concentric bands with cartouches with floral decorations and insects painted in blue only. Coat of arms surmounted by a crown and with a crest of a stag and motto in banderol "PENSEZ PUIS PARLE" in blue, yellow and brownish red. Brown rim. Concentric circles on the back.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 39.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'D' underlined, over '12 [sic]' (Painted in blue)
  • 'PENSEZ PUIS PARLE'
Gallery label
Dish Probably made at the factory "De Grieksche A", Delft, Netherlands 1725-60 Mark: 'D', underlined, over '12' (?), painted in blue Inscription: 'PENSEZ PUIS PARLE' Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration Circ.73-1963 Mellor Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Mellor Bequest
Production
MvA in The Hague II, p. 28, fig. 10 (ill. plaque in Arnhem dated 1737 under the 'D') attributed the D-mark to De Grieksche A.
Bibliographic references
  • Lunsingh Scheurleer, D. F. Delft: Niederlandische FayenceMunich, 1984. p. 192, Fig.36.
  • Goosens, M.E.W. Blue Delftware 1680-1720. Amsterdam, 1981. cat. 19
  • Morley-Fletcher, H., R. McIlroy, Christie's pictorial history of European pottery. Oxford: Phaidon/ Christie's, 1984. p. 210-211, Fig.7.
  • A larger dish (D. 49 cm) from the same set was with Bastings Antiquairs, Molenstraat 58/60, 5341 GE,Oss, Netherlands: advertisement in Vormen uit Vuur, 226 (2014), 3, p. 44.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.73-1963

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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