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

Dish

1916 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of white earthenware with lead glazes, featuring a design reserved against a painted black ground of a nude girl wearing a laurel wreath and standing behind and entwined by a large lily plant and at her feet are snowdrops, and lily flowers form a border around the edge and a narrow crimson line runs around the inner side of the rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, white body under a transparent glaze, painted in black, green and crimson enamel
Brief description
Dish of earthenware with lead glazes, featuring a design reserved against a painted black ground of a nude girl wearing a laurel wreath and standing behind and entwined by a flowers, made by A & H. L. Hopkins, London, 1916.
Physical description
Dish of white earthenware with lead glazes, featuring a design reserved against a painted black ground of a nude girl wearing a laurel wreath and standing behind and entwined by a large lily plant and at her feet are snowdrops, and lily flowers form a border around the edge and a narrow crimson line runs around the inner side of the rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 30.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'A.& H. Hopkins / 203 Lambeth Rd / London SE' [impressed] (On base.)
  • '1916' [incised]
  • 'A &. H.L. Hopkins, 1916' (Scratched into the enamel near the rim)
Object history
Acquisition details: T. Stainton, Beaconsfield, Bucks.
A member of the public, researching the Hopkins family wrote in (Oct 2008) to say that the Hopkins resided at 208, not 203 Lambeth Rd. A copy of this letter is held in the Ceramics and Glass section subject file under Individuals; A.J Hopkins.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery : the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, Oxford : Phaidon, Christie's, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
Collection
Accession number
C.61-1972

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2000
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