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

Plate

ca. 1888 (made)
Artist/Maker
J. & M. P. Bell & Co. (manufacturers)
Place of origin
Glasgow (made)

Earthenware rice plate, transfer-printed with 'Buah Nanas' pineapple pattern, showing three pineapples in an Islamic cresecent border and four pineapples round the rim, blue centre with blue border


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Scotland
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Transfer-printed earthenware
Earthenware
Transfer-Printed
Brief description
Rice plate, transfer-printed earthenware, 'Buah Nanas' pattern in blue, J.& M.P. Bell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, ca.1888
Physical description
Earthenware rice plate, transfer-printed with 'Buah Nanas' pineapple pattern, showing three pineapples in an Islamic cresecent border and four pineapples round the rim, blue centre with blue border
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.7cm
  • Height: 4cm
checked 17/04/2009
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Buah Nanas' (pattern name printed in blue to base)
  • J.&M.P Bell & Co. Ltd trade mark: bell inside a belt encorporating, the company name, the words 'trade mark' with 'Glasgow' in a scroll beneath. (printed in blue to base)
  • 'Rd No.115580' (Registration number printed to base beneath trade mark)
  • Malay script mark (printed in blue to base)
  • 'B' in bell (impressed to base)
Subjects depicted
Pineapple
Crescent Moon
Bibliographic reference
Christie's South Kensington sale catalogue: From Scotland to South East Asia and Beyond: the Edwin Robertson Collection of Bell Export Pottery, Thursday 27 September 2007. Lot 24.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.87-2007

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Record createdApril 17, 2009
Record URL
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