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

Plate

first quarter of 19th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of bone china painted in enamels and gilded. Wavy edge and moulded in relief with shell fluting picked out in gold. Painted with a view of a ruined castle with a figure in the foreground. On the rim are gilt foliate patterns on a dark blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone china painted in enamels, moulded and gilded
Brief description
Plate of bone china painted in enamels and gilded, Spode Ceramic Works, Stoke-on-Trent, first quarter of 19th century
Physical description
Plate of bone china painted in enamels and gilded. Wavy edge and moulded in relief with shell fluting picked out in gold. Painted with a view of a ruined castle with a figure in the foreground. On the rim are gilt foliate patterns on a dark blue ground.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Spode' (In black)
  • 'Pencode Castle' (Inscribed underneath)
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.278-1915

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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