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

Basin

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Basin of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and the outside is painted with pairs of exotic birds among bushes in three fan-shaped panels and insects in three circular medallions between them, and the panels and medallions are enclosed by gilt borders, from which spring sprays of flowers also in gold, and they are reserved in white on a powdered-blue ground, and the inside on the bottom are butterflies and other insects.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Basin of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770.
Physical description
Basin of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and the outside is painted with pairs of exotic birds among bushes in three fan-shaped panels and insects in three circular medallions between them, and the panels and medallions are enclosed by gilt borders, from which spring sprays of flowers also in gold, and they are reserved in white on a powdered-blue ground, and the inside on the bottom are butterflies and other insects.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.7cm
  • Diameter: 15.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
A crescent (In red)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Mrs Haliburton, Isleworth, for £2 2 shillings in April 1866
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 557 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:625-1885

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Record createdJanuary 22, 2009
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