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

Plate

1750-75 (made)
Place of origin
Delft (made)

The concept of sets of ornamental vases came from China. Potteries in Holland and elsewhere, particularly those at Delft, soon copied it. This plate shows the range of wares made by one particular factory. It included teapots and what appear to be spittoons (containers for spitting in). The factory has not been identified.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Images Online
Earthenware
Delftware
SCRAN
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted with a garniture of vases on a yellow ground. DUTCH, made at Delft about 1760
Physical description
Tin-glazed earthenware plate painted with a garniture of vases on a yellow ground. DUTCH, made at Delft about 1760. Diameter: 25.4 cm.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 47.4cm
Subject depicted
Vase
Summary
The concept of sets of ornamental vases came from China. Potteries in Holland and elsewhere, particularly those at Delft, soon copied it. This plate shows the range of wares made by one particular factory. It included teapots and what appear to be spittoons (containers for spitting in). The factory has not been identified.
Bibliographic references
  • Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X
  • Van Dam 2004, p. 167, fig 107
  • Sothebys, London, 25/10/2016, lot 524 For a plate with similar yellow-ground decoration. With further references.
  • For a similar dish without the Chinese figures, see: D. Aronson et al, Delftware: Tangible Memories: The Mr. & Mrs. H.C. Bout collection, the Gaston de Ramaix collection and other recent acquisitions, Amsterdam 2018, cat. 89, pp. 150-151, with further references.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.60-1966

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Record createdNovember 27, 2002
Record URL
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