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

Fork

ca. 1735-1740 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fork with steel shaft and tines, handle of hard-paste porcelain, relief-moulded with Sulkowski osier pattern, painted in enamel colours with the Indian flowers and Kakiemon 'bundled hedges'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in relief, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Fork with steel shaft and tines, handle of hard-paste porcelain painted in enamel colours, made by Meissen porcelain factory, Germany, ca. 1735-1740
Physical description
Fork with steel shaft and tines, handle of hard-paste porcelain, relief-moulded with Sulkowski osier pattern, painted in enamel colours with the Indian flowers and Kakiemon 'bundled hedges'.
Dimensions
  • Handle length: 9.5cm
Credit line
Given by Montagu Yeats Brown, Esq. CMG.
Production
Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.348-1914

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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