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 hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Lobed rim decorated in gold with a formal classical pattern of panelling and foliage on a striped ground. In the middle is a figure subject of a young Italian peasant walking hand-in-hand with a girl who carries a basket of flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, painted by W. Fletcher Junior outside the factory, probably Coalport Porcelain Factory, Coalport, ca. 1810.
Physical description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Lobed rim decorated in gold with a formal classical pattern of panelling and foliage on a striped ground. In the middle is a figure subject of a young Italian peasant walking hand-in-hand with a girl who carries a basket of flowers.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
'W. Fletcher, Junr. Del. et Pinx.' (Signed figure-subject)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Decorated outside the factory.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Lockett T & Godden G. Davenport China, Earthenware and Glass 1794-1887. London : Barrie & Jenkins, 1989, 275 p.
Collection
Accession number
C.681-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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