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

Lamp and Cover

ca. 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lamp and cover of porcelain painted with red enamel and gilded.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Lamp
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Lamp and cover of porcelain painted with red enamel and gilded, Coalport Porcelain Factory, Coalport, ca. 1810
Physical description
Lamp and cover of porcelain painted with red enamel and gilded.
Dimensions
  • Height: 21.6cm
  • Length: 25.4cm
Production
Adapted from a design made earlier by Spode's factory in bone china and Wedgwood's factory in Black Basalt, which in turn was copied from an etching by Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non of 1767
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Clifford, Sir Timothy, ‘Some English Ceramic Vases and their Sources, Part 2’ in Walford, Tom and Hilary Young British Ceramic Design, 1600-2002: Papers presented at the colloquium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle, 1927-2002. 2003, p. 90, fig. 26
Collection
Accession number
C.254&A-1911

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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