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

Plate

ca. 1735 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, porcelain, with sloping rim, painted in enamels and gold. In the centre with the arms of Tracy, which should be painted Or an escallop in dexter chief between two bendlets gules, quartering Baldington of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and Keck of Stoughton Grange, Leics. The unusual impaled coat is Atkyns of Sapperton in Gloucs, Argent, a cross sable, a treasure of a half fleur-de-lis between four pierced mullets of the second. The shield is simple, mainly in black and white, red and gold. Round the border the rim is decorated with floral scrollwork in red and gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in enamels and gold
Brief description
Plate, porcelain painted in enamels and gold with coat of arms, China, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng reign period, ca. 1735
Physical description
Plate, porcelain, with sloping rim, painted in enamels and gold. In the centre with the arms of Tracy, which should be painted Or an escallop in dexter chief between two bendlets gules, quartering Baldington of Adderbury in Oxfordshire and Keck of Stoughton Grange, Leics. The unusual impaled coat is Atkyns of Sapperton in Gloucs, Argent, a cross sable, a treasure of a half fleur-de-lis between four pierced mullets of the second. The shield is simple, mainly in black and white, red and gold. Round the border the rim is decorated with floral scrollwork in red and gold.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.3cm
Styles
Credit line
Given by Mr P. Cooke
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Howard, David Santuary. Chinese Armorial Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1974, p. 289
Collection
Accession number
FE.57-1978

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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