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

Plate

1861 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. The rim is divided by richly-gilt openwork designs into five panels painted en camaïeuin opaque white and dark blue on a turquoise-blue ground with a dancing cupid and trophies of music and revelry. In the middle is a royal cypher under a crown in red and gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Plate of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, designed by Thomas W. Reeve and decorated by Thomas Bott, Kerr, Binns & Co., Worcester, 1861.
Physical description
Plate of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. The rim is divided by richly-gilt openwork designs into five panels painted en camaïeuin opaque white and dark blue on a turquoise-blue ground with a dancing cupid and trophies of music and revelry. In the middle is a royal cypher under a crown in red and gold.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Two cupids supporting an escutcheon with the royal cypher 'VR' under a crown, and standing on a pedestal of which on the front are the initials 'K & B / WORCESTER'; above are ribbons inscribed 'BERNARD PALISSY', 'MINTON', BÖTTCHER', WEDGWOOD, LUCA DELLA ROBBIA' [printed in black]; with the monogram of the decorator 'T B', date '61'; and 'No. 46' [inserted in red in the lower part]
  • A circle enclosing four W's surrounding a crescent, within the horns of which are the figures '51' [impressed]
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Plate from part of a service made for Queen Victoria designed by Thomas W. Reeve and decorated by Thomas Bott.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.544-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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