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

Plate

ca. 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Polychrome and multiform gilt border with festoons, scrolls, scale pattern, foliated devices and other motives. In the middle is a circular medallion formed by a chain of scrolls and contain a Japanese garden scene with a figure in the foreground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in colours and gilded
Brief description
Plate of porcelain painted in colours and gilded, Barr, Flight & Barr, Worcester, ca. 1810
Physical description
Plate of porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Polychrome and multiform gilt border with festoons, scrolls, scale pattern, foliated devices and other motives. In the middle is a circular medallion formed by a chain of scrolls and contain a Japanese garden scene with a figure in the foreground.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'BFB' [under a crown] (Impressed)
  • 'BARR FLIGHT & BARR / Royal Porcelain Works / WORCESTER London-House / No, 1 / Coventry Street' [under a crown and the Prince of Wales' feathers] (Printed in red)
Credit line
Given by Mr M.Yeats Brown, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.20-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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