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

Dish

ca. 1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a central basket of flowers framed in a narrow band of flowers and leaves. The remaining area occupied by a wide border divided into six panels with sprays of flowers, the intervening areas decorated with flowers against a stippled ground.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue
Brief description
Dish, earthenware transfer-printed in underglaze blue, made by Andrew Stevenson, Cobridge, Staffordshire, England, ca. 1825
Physical description
Dish of earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a central basket of flowers framed in a narrow band of flowers and leaves. The remaining area occupied by a wide border divided into six panels with sprays of flowers, the intervening areas decorated with flowers against a stippled ground.
Dimensions
  • Length: 36.5cm
  • Width: 28.0cm
  • Depth: 4.0cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'SEMI NANKEEN CHINA' on a ribbon scroll surmounted by a Crown, thistle and a rose with a three-masted ship below, transfer-printed in blue
  • '14' impressed
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Coysh, A.W. Blue and White Transfer Ware 1780-1840, Newton Abbot, 1970, pl. 123.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.257-1974

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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