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

Saucer

1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with a landscape painted in black in a square panel on a ground coloured to imitate mahogany within bands of formal ornament and festoons of laurel in enamels and gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Vienna, 1800.
Physical description
Saucer of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated with a landscape painted in black in a square panel on a ground coloured to imitate mahogany within bands of formal ornament and festoons of laurel in enamels and gold.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 13.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A shield with the arms of Austria (In blue)
  • '15' (In blue)
  • '800' (Impressed)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Herbert Allen (Maude Louise Allen)
Object history
The decoration conceals a pattern in underglaze blue, and was probably painted outside the Imperial factory.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.82-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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