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

Plate

ca. 1740 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of hard-paste porcelain with scalloped edge. Painted in underglaze blue, enamels, violet lustre and gold after an Imari model, the centre with a bird on a wave-wasted rock near a pine tree, the rim with reserves and lobed panels with phoenixes and flowers. Outside, peony sprays in underglaze blue and red enamel, and three lines in blue above the footring.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, enamels, metal lustre and gilded
Brief description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, enamels, metal lustre and gilded, made by the Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1740
Physical description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain with scalloped edge. Painted in underglaze blue, enamels, violet lustre and gold after an Imari model, the centre with a bird on a wave-wasted rock near a pine tree, the rim with reserves and lobed panels with phoenixes and flowers. Outside, peony sprays in underglaze blue and red enamel, and three lines in blue above the footring.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Crossed swords with pommels and curved guards and 'K' within a large double circle (Factory mark, in underglaze blue)
  • '22' (Impressed)
Object history
From Bernal Collection.
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
1949A-1855

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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