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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Plate

ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and with a wavy edge and flat rim moulded with flowers and leaves enamelled in red, yellow and green, and with an inner border of flowers in panels reserved on a band of green diaper, and painted in the middle with a shepherd playing a flute beside a classical urn on a pedestal amongst trees, and above him are 'T' and 'H' in duplicated monogram in gold on a green ground with pink scrolls.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels and moulded
Brief description
Plate of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and with a wavy edge and flat moulded rim, maker unknown, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1765.
Physical description
Plate of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels, and with a wavy edge and flat rim moulded with flowers and leaves enamelled in red, yellow and green, and with an inner border of flowers in panels reserved on a band of green diaper, and painted in the middle with a shepherd playing a flute beside a classical urn on a pedestal amongst trees, and above him are 'T' and 'H' in duplicated monogram in gold on a green ground with pink scrolls.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'T' and 'H' [in duplicated monogram] (In gold, in the middle, on a green ground with pink scrolls)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Part of a pair with 414:921/A-1885 (Sch. II 222A).
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 222 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:921-1885

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Record createdMarch 2, 2009
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