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

Barber's Basin

ca. 1739-ca. 1749 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval bowl, tin-glazed earthenware, with shaped edge and neck indentation, the centre painted with Diana and Actaeon in a landscape in colours, within a grotesque cartouche with strapwork, festoons monkeys and satyrs, the border painted with swags and insects and with an unidentified coat of arms and the motto 'HAEC SIGNA VOCANT'; the footrim drilled for suspension loop


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed eathenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Oval bowl, tin-glazed earthenware, painted with Diana and Actaeon in a landscape in colours, Olérys and Laugier's pottery factory, France, about 1739-1749
Physical description
Oval bowl, tin-glazed earthenware, with shaped edge and neck indentation, the centre painted with Diana and Actaeon in a landscape in colours, within a grotesque cartouche with strapwork, festoons monkeys and satyrs, the border painted with swags and insects and with an unidentified coat of arms and the motto 'HAEC SIGNA VOCANT'; the footrim drilled for suspension loop
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'OL' (Painted in monogram in ochre)
  • 'P.' (Unidentified painter's mark, painted in ochre)
  • 'HAEC SIGNA VOCANT' (Decoration)
Object history
Bought from the Aigoin Collection
Acquisition type: Purchase
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
462-1870

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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