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

Dish

ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of soft-paste porcelain, square with incurved angles. Painted in the middle with bouquets, a caterpillar and a fly in natural colours. The rim has a border of foliage in red and gold, in the style of Japanese Kakiemon ware, and is decorated with applied sprays of prunus-blossom in imitation of Chinese porcelain of the province of Fujian.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain with applied decoration, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Dish, soft-paste porcelain with applied decoration, painted in enamels and gilt, made by Bow Porcelain Factory, decoration painted by James Welsh, England, ca. 1755
Physical description
Dish of soft-paste porcelain, square with incurved angles. Painted in the middle with bouquets, a caterpillar and a fly in natural colours. The rim has a border of foliage in red and gold, in the style of Japanese Kakiemon ware, and is decorated with applied sprays of prunus-blossom in imitation of Chinese porcelain of the province of Fujian.
Dimensions
  • Length: 18.7cm
  • Width: 18.7cm
Styles
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Honey, W. B. Old English porcelain; a handbook for collectors London: Faber & Faber, 1948, p. 92.
  • Stevenson, T. "James Welsh, a Bow porcelain painter revealed" in Apollo January 1993, p. 15.
Collection
Accession number
2909-1901

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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