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

Tray and Two Cups

ca. 1760-70 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tray fitted with two handled-beakers in the Rococo style, of hard-paste porcelain. Trefoil-shaped, the edge moulded with shell pattern shaded in pale purple and with foliation picked out in pale green and gold; the recesses for the cups bordered with applied scrollwork and shell pattern, similarly decorated; painted with bunches of flowers and fruit in natural colours; the cups with scrolled and twisted loop-handles, shaded in pale green and gold and moulded near the foot with a band of irregular shell pattern in low relief, shaded in pale purple and gold, the sides painted with similar bunches of flowers and fruit.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Cup
  • Cup
  • Tray
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain with moulded and applied decoration, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Tray fitted with two handled-beakers in the Rococo style, hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilt; Kloster-Veilsdorf porcelain factory, Thuringia, Germany, ca. 1760-70
Physical description
Tray fitted with two handled-beakers in the Rococo style, of hard-paste porcelain. Trefoil-shaped, the edge moulded with shell pattern shaded in pale purple and with foliation picked out in pale green and gold; the recesses for the cups bordered with applied scrollwork and shell pattern, similarly decorated; painted with bunches of flowers and fruit in natural colours; the cups with scrolled and twisted loop-handles, shaded in pale green and gold and moulded near the foot with a band of irregular shell pattern in low relief, shaded in pale purple and gold, the sides painted with similar bunches of flowers and fruit.
Marks and inscriptions
'C.V.' in monogram, in blue
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.857 to B-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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