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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Pickle Dish

1925 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain pickle dish of oval shape with two stylised crest horizontal handles on opposite side of the rim, painted with gazelle and plants and gilded decoration.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with painted and gilded decoration
Brief description
Pickle dish, porcelain with painted gazelle, plant and gilded decoration, shape designed by Christian Joachim, decorated by Arno Malinowski, manufactured by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, 1925.
Physical description
Porcelain pickle dish of oval shape with two stylised crest horizontal handles on opposite side of the rim, painted with gazelle and plants and gilded decoration.
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘ROYAL COPENHAGEN DENMARK’ around a crown (Printed in green)
  • Three wavy lines (Painted in blue)
  • '734.12449 BGX' (Painted in green)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 39 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.275-1939

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Record createdSeptember 25, 2008
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