Not currently on display at the V&A

Plate

ca. 1953 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bone china plate with printed and painted decoration of angular black line on white ground. A yellow band around rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone china with printed and painted decoration
Brief description
Plate, bone china with printed and painted decoration, designed by David, Lord Queensberry (Viscount Drumlanrig) and Colin Melbourne, England, ca. 1953.
Physical description
Bone china plate with printed and painted decoration of angular black line on white ground. A yellow band around rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Drumlanrig and Melbourne' (Signed and reserved in white on black printed shaped panel)
Credit line
Given by the Lord Parmoor
Object history
Lord Parmoor, letter 14/04/1987 on Nominal File, recalled that after he left the army, he set up the Flavian Trading Company which sold these plates which he described as "quintessentially 50's" (the pattern).
Collection
Accession number
C.74-1991

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Record createdNovember 4, 2008
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