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

Plate

ca. 1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with purple enamel and gilded. Decorated on the rim with festoons and sprays of flowers, and with a gilt wavy edge. With a landscape in the middle of a bearded man in a cloak and leaning on a staff amongst a group of ruins.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with purple enamel and gilded
Brief description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with purple enamel and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1765.
Physical description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain transfer-printed with purple enamel and gilded. Decorated on the rim with festoons and sprays of flowers, and with a gilt wavy edge. With a landscape in the middle of a bearded man in a cloak and leaning on a staff amongst a group of ruins.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.2cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
One of six plates with C.421 to E-1935. Formerly in the J.C. Mortlock Collection.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.421A-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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