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

Dessert Dish

ca. 1755-60 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue. In the form of a vine-leaf with a serrated edge, and moulded in relief with veins, overlapping lobes and a scroll-shaped panel in which is painted a landscape. Flowering plants in Chinese style.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue and moulded
Brief description
Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue, Worcester porcelain factory, ca. 1755-60
Physical description
Dessert dish of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze blue. In the form of a vine-leaf with a serrated edge, and moulded in relief with veins, overlapping lobes and a scroll-shaped panel in which is painted a landscape. Flowering plants in Chinese style.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 18.4cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
'T' [crossed]
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
For this pattern, see Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain, revised edition 1989, cat. I.B.24, where dated 1755-60
Collection
Accession number
C.1306-1924

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Record createdJune 11, 2009
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