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

Plate

ca. 1775-1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of tin-plate hard-paste porcelain in Japanese Imari style with blue and red enamels and gilded. Circular with a deep well, shallow foot and canted rim. In the centre within a single blue ring is painted a bunch of peony and chrysanthemum-like flowers after the Chinese manner, bound in a fillet. A narrow border runs around the rim and contains panels with a bird and lotus plant in red and gold, alternating with a prunus flower design reserved on a blue ground. Plain reverse.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-plate hard-paste porcelain painted with blue and red enamels and gilded
Brief description
Plate of tin-plate hard-paste porcelain, Doccia porcelain factory, Doccia, ca. 1775-1800.
Physical description
Plate of tin-plate hard-paste porcelain in Japanese Imari style with blue and red enamels and gilded. Circular with a deep well, shallow foot and canted rim. In the centre within a single blue ring is painted a bunch of peony and chrysanthemum-like flowers after the Chinese manner, bound in a fillet. A narrow border runs around the rim and contains panels with a bird and lotus plant in red and gold, alternating with a prunus flower design reserved on a blue ground. Plain reverse.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.1cm
  • Diameter: 21.9cm
Style
Gallery label
PLATE Tin-glaze porcelain in Japanese Imari style ITALY (Doccia); ca. 1770-1780 Gift of Dr Bernard Watney C.56-1960 (Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)(ca. 1995)
Credit line
Given by Dr Bernard Watney
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Frescobaldi Malenchini, Livia ed. With Balleri, Rita and Rucellai, Oliva, ‘Amici di Doccia Quaderni, Numero VII, 2013, The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection’, Edizioni Polistampa, Firenze, 2014 p.83, Cat. 62 62. Soup dish with oriental decoration last quarter of the 18th century hard-paste porcelain with tin-glaze painted in colours and gold diam. 21,5 cm no mark inv. C.56-1960 gift: Dr Bernard Watney Soup dish with oriental floral motifs and, perhaps, a bird of paradise in blue, red and gold. The decoration of the dish is one of many inspired by Japanese and Chinese porcelain that were in use at the Ginori factory in the last quarter of the 18th century. There are other plates and also a soup tureen with this type of decoration (A. Biancalana, in LAMANIFATTURA TOSCANA DEIGINORI 1998, p. 154-155, cat. 84-85). In the past, two plates similar to this one in the Museum of Decorative Arts in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan (inv. P.109-110) were attributed to the Cozzi factory in Venice (LISE 1975, p. 25, cat. 2-3). The arrangement and decorative typology and the colours used in this plate suggest that it was made at the Ginori factory sometime between 1775 and 1800; the use of masso bastardo (see cat. 63),moreover, is a further confirmation of this attribution. A.B. Bibliography: unpublished
Collection
Accession number
C.56-1960

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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