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

Saucer

ca. 1875 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of red earthenware decorated in buff and white slips and painted in colours under a clear glaze. In the middle is a shield between branches black and green, outlined in white slip and charged with the arms of Canton Berne.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware decorated in buff and white slips and painted in colours under a clear glaze
Brief description
Saucer of red earthenware decorated in buff and white slips and painted in colours. Bearing the arms of the Canton of Berne. Swiss, Heimberg, about 1875.
Physical description
Plate of red earthenware decorated in buff and white slips and painted in colours under a clear glaze. In the middle is a shield between branches black and green, outlined in white slip and charged with the arms of Canton Berne.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 18.4cm
Credit line
Given by H. M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
Object history
H.M.C. Loan no.72.
Subject depicted
Other number
HMC.72
Collection
Accession number
C.616-1921

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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