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

Plate

ca 1868 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The South Kensington Museum (the V&A) was founded with a collection of contemporary work from many countries to be used as a teaching collection for the instruction of students at its own design school (now the Royal College of Art) as well as at a network of associated design schools throughout the country. The museum was also interested in the work of students abroad and this dish was acquired as such an example. The student, Mlle C. Lombard, then aged 23, decorated this dish after a painting by Philip de Loutherbourg


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Plate, earthenware painted in colours, by C. Lombard, made by Lebeuf & Milliet, Creil-Montereau, France, ca. 1868
Physical description
Plate of earthenware, decorated with a scene of a shepherd, dog and cattle in a landscape.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 39.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'C.Lombard Age 23 Ecole Industrielle Paris EH 7' painted in red; 'Creil et Montereau porcel opaque' around an oval enclosing ' L.M & Cie 1834 39 44 & 40', printed (EH is for Mlle Eugénie hautier, director of the École Practique des Arts Industriels pour les Jeunes Filles, where this dish was painted)
Production
Painted at the École Practique des Arts Industriels pour les Jeunes Filles, Paris, under the direction of Mlle. Eugénie Hautier
Subjects depicted
Summary
The South Kensington Museum (the V&A) was founded with a collection of contemporary work from many countries to be used as a teaching collection for the instruction of students at its own design school (now the Royal College of Art) as well as at a network of associated design schools throughout the country. The museum was also interested in the work of students abroad and this dish was acquired as such an example. The student, Mlle C. Lombard, then aged 23, decorated this dish after a painting by Philip de Loutherbourg
Collection
Accession number
1791-1869

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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