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

Plate

ca. 1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of bone china transfer-printed in blue and red, and painted over in colours and gilded. In the centre is a circular medallion with an outline of dentil diaper containing lotus flowers and a duck. Outside this, but divided from it by a plain interval, is a border in which panels containing sprays of flowers are reserved in a row of red and gilt flowers with gilt scrolled leaves. Round the rim are two Chinese flowers and devices in blue. A narrow border of gilt scroll runs round the edge of the rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone china transfer-printed and painted over in colours and gilded
Brief description
Plate of bone china transfer-printed and painted over in colours and gilded, Spode Ceramic Works, Stoke-on-Trent, ca. 1825
Physical description
Plate of bone china transfer-printed in blue and red, and painted over in colours and gilded. In the centre is a circular medallion with an outline of dentil diaper containing lotus flowers and a duck. Outside this, but divided from it by a plain interval, is a border in which panels containing sprays of flowers are reserved in a row of red and gilt flowers with gilt scrolled leaves. Round the rim are two Chinese flowers and devices in blue. A narrow border of gilt scroll runs round the edge of the rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 17.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'2638' (Painted in red)
Credit line
Given by Lt. Col. Kenneth Dingwall, DSO through Art Fund
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.315-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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