Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

September

Plate
1750-1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted in cobalt blue with peasants gathering apples. A woman and two boys in a landscape with a church in the distance. One boy is shaking an apple-tree and the other is carrying away a basket full of apples. Inscribed 'September'; one of a series illustrating the months.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSeptember (series title)
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in cobalt blue
Brief description
'September' plate from series of the months, tin-glazed earthenware painted in cobalt blue with peasants gathering apples, Delft, second half of 18th century
Physical description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted in cobalt blue with peasants gathering apples. A woman and two boys in a landscape with a church in the distance. One boy is shaking an apple-tree and the other is carrying away a basket full of apples. Inscribed 'September'; one of a series illustrating the months.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.9cm
  • Height: 2.6cm
  • Weight: 430g
measured feb 2010
Marks and inscriptions
A hatchet (In blue, the mark of the factory of Justus Brouwer at the sign of the 'Porcelain Hatchet' (de porceleijne Bijl))
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Schaap, E. B. Delft Ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2003, pp.50-51
Collection
Accession number
3851-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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