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

Plate

1871 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of green glazed earthenware embossed with allegorical figures, after an original by Briot.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glazed earthenware, embossed
Brief description
Plate of green glazed earthenware, design copied from the Temperance Basin by François Briot, probably made by Clément Massier, Vallauris, 1871.
Physical description
Plate of green glazed earthenware embossed with allegorical figures, after an original by Briot.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 40.3cm
Production
The design is a copy of the Temperance Basin by François Briot, about 1585. The dish depicts the figure of Temperance holding a wine cup in the central area, surrounded by a broad band of ornament containing four plaques that depict figures representing air, water, earth, and fire. In addition, oval panels on the rim depict the Seven Liberal Arts – Grammar, Reason, Rhetoric, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry and Astrology – and their patron Minerva.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
352-1871

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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