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

Plate

ca. 1815 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular plate of stoneware transfer-printed in black, over-painted with enamels and gilded. With eight lobes, slight concave rim and low recessed foot rim. Printed in black outline with two Chinese figures in a water-scape in a roughly octagonal panel framed with red, purple and gold scrollwork in Meissen style. A ship in the background. The rim is decorated with peonies and other flowers outlined in black and over-painted mainly in pink, partly on panels of scroll-diaper with 'pinked' contours in imitation of Chinese famille rose porcelain.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware transfer-printed in black, over-painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Circular plate of stoneware transfer-printed in black, over-painted with enamels and gilded, Spode Ceramic Works, Stoke-on-Trent, ca. 1815
Physical description
Circular plate of stoneware transfer-printed in black, over-painted with enamels and gilded. With eight lobes, slight concave rim and low recessed foot rim. Printed in black outline with two Chinese figures in a water-scape in a roughly octagonal panel framed with red, purple and gold scrollwork in Meissen style. A ship in the background. The rim is decorated with peonies and other flowers outlined in black and over-painted mainly in pink, partly on panels of scroll-diaper with 'pinked' contours in imitation of Chinese famille rose porcelain.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A Chinese seal mark [copied]with 'SPODE' across it and 'STONE CHINA' below it (Printed in black)
  • '3067' (Painted in red)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs B.E. Nichols
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.125-1972

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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