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

Tureen and Cover

ca. 1870 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tureen and cover. Depressed globular body with crescent-shaped lugs. Both the dish and dome cover, which has a cup-shaped knob, decorated over a red ground with a band of ovals outlined in white slip, painted in blue and touched in green between formal festoons in black bordered with white. The inside white.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Tureen
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Earthenware decorated in white slip and painted in blue, green and black
Brief description
Red earthenware tureen and cover decorated in white slip and painted in blue, green and black. Swiss (Heimberg), about 1870.
Physical description
Tureen and cover. Depressed globular body with crescent-shaped lugs. Both the dish and dome cover, which has a cup-shaped knob, decorated over a red ground with a band of ovals outlined in white slip, painted in blue and touched in green between formal festoons in black bordered with white. The inside white.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register height: 17.8cm
  • Taken from register diameter: 22.2cm
Gallery label
Tureen, made at Heimberg, Switzerland, about 1870 C.609+a-1921 Given by the Royal Commissioners for the 1851 Exhibition(2010 (TAB))
Credit line
Given by H. M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851
Object history
Part of a group of objects (C.604-643) acquired from 'The Royal Commissioners for the 1851 Exhibition' (H.M.C. Loan No.75). Some of the other objects still retain information in the Registers as regards their H.M.C. loan numbers and information relating to their exhibition in the 1871 exhibition plus date of manufacture (1870).
At the time of acquisition, it was recorded that this casserole had been made in Heimberg and given a date of about 1870.
Production
Made in Heimberg.
Bibliographic reference
Wyss, Robert L., Berner Bauern Keramik, 1966
Other number
HMC.75 - H.M.C. Loan no.
Collection
Accession number
C.609&A-1921

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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