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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

ca. 1935 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, white earthenware body with a deep cream glaze. Central area decorated with a stylised fox in purple brown, hair brown, black, yellow, two shades of pale grey and pale green enamel colours, all surrounded by a broad band of silver lustre. The rim painted in solid banding in red with sgraffito decoration, and edged with a line of silver lustre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with hand painted decoration in enamel colours and lustre
Brief description
Plate, earthenware with hand painted decoration in enamel colours, designed and perhaps painted by Susie Cooper, made by Wood and Sons Ltd., England, ca. 1935.
Physical description
Plate, white earthenware body with a deep cream glaze. Central area decorated with a stylised fox in purple brown, hair brown, black, yellow, two shades of pale grey and pale green enamel colours, all surrounded by a broad band of silver lustre. The rim painted in solid banding in red with sgraffito decoration, and edged with a line of silver lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 28.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A leaping deer (Printed in two shades of brown)
  • 'A / SUSIE COOPER / PRODUCTION' (Printed in two shades of brown)
  • 'W132' (Impressed)
Production
Designed by Susie Cooper and perhaps painted.
Collection
Accession number
C.182-1986

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Record createdOctober 22, 2008
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