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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Baking Dish

1701 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Baking dish of red earthenware glazed over a white slip. Oblong with a small long handle at each end, moulded in countersunk relief for seventeen cakes in the form of crayfish, shells, pears with foliage, fish and sprays of leaves.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware glazed over a white slip and moulded
Brief description
Baking dish of red earthenware glazed over a white slip, Thuringia, dated 1701
Physical description
Baking dish of red earthenware glazed over a white slip. Oblong with a small long handle at each end, moulded in countersunk relief for seventeen cakes in the form of crayfish, shells, pears with foliage, fish and sprays of leaves.
Dimensions
  • Length: 57.2cm
  • Width: 29.2cm
Credit line
Given by Miss H.T. Jahn
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.185-1933

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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