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

Plate

1872 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cream-coloured earthenware plate illustrative of the zodiacal sign Gemini. The design is partly transfer-printed (on-glaze), and painted in enamel colours, and shows two watchmen (?) in medieval dress within a square panel, which is superimposed on a background of branches on an olive-green mottled ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, transfer-printed (on glaze) and painted in enamel colours
Brief description
Plate, earthenware transfer-printed (on glaze) and painted in enamel colours, probably designed by Henry Stacy Marks, Minton & Co., Stoke-on-Trent, England, dated 1872.
Physical description
Cream-coloured earthenware plate illustrative of the zodiacal sign Gemini. The design is partly transfer-printed (on-glaze), and painted in enamel colours, and shows two watchmen (?) in medieval dress within a square panel, which is superimposed on a background of branches on an olive-green mottled ground.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.0cm
Marks and inscriptions
'MINTON' and date mark for 1872, impressed
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.472-1970

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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