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

Madeleine

Plate
ca. 1905-1910 (made), 1909-1910 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The plate, ''Madeleine' shape, with waved rim, enriched with gilding, the centre decorated with a raised moulded pattern, to look like pâte sur pâte of a branch of currants or berries and leaves with tendrils painted in blues and greens.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMadeleine (series title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with moulded decoration painted in colours
Brief description
Plate, 'Madeleine' shape, white porcelain with moulded pattern of currants or berries, the decoration possibly designed by Julius Vilhelm Guldbrandsen between 1909-1910, manufactured by Rosenthal AG, Selb, Bavaria, Germany, ca. 1905-1910
Physical description
The plate, ''Madeleine' shape, with waved rim, enriched with gilding, the centre decorated with a raised moulded pattern, to look like pâte sur pâte of a branch of currants or berries and leaves with tendrils painted in blues and greens.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
'ROSENTHAL' with a crown and 'BAVARIA' (Printed in green)
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Rosenthal: Hundert Jahre Porzellan, Stuttgart: Union, 1982, pp. 32, 33, 179.
Collection
Accession number
C.203-1984

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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