Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

18th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted in green shaded with black. The rim is painted with sprays of foliage, flowers and fruit; in the middle is a heraldic crest, a dexter hand couped holding a stag's horn.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in green and shaded with black
Brief description
Plate, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in green and shaded with black, Joseph Gaspard Robert's porcelain factory, France (Marseilles), 18th century
Physical description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted in green shaded with black. The rim is painted with sprays of foliage, flowers and fruit; in the middle is a heraldic crest, a dexter hand couped holding a stag's horn.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25.1cm
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Object history
This plate bears the crest of the Parker family. The remainder of this crested service is at Saltram House, Devon. Given before 1855 to the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn St., by Montagu Edmund Parker of Whiteway, Devon.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
3105-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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