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

Serving Dish

ca. 1765-ca. 1795 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval serving dish with waved edge, painted with masonic emblems in rococo cartouches reserved on a yellow ground


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Oval serving dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted with masonic emblems, Veuve Perrin pottery factory, Marseilles, about 1765-1795
Physical description
Oval serving dish with waved edge, painted with masonic emblems in rococo cartouches reserved on a yellow ground
Marks and inscriptions
'VP' (Painted in monogram in red)
Gallery label
Gallery 128 Decant 2003 Painted with masonic emblems(07/06/2004)
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Fétis collection.
Production
Acquired as Marseilles, Veuve Perrin factory, c. 1780; redated c. 1760-70; for a similar piece dated c.1765-end of the 18th century, see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 104. llustrated Musées de Marseille, La Faïence de Marseille au XVIIIe siècle: La manufacture de la Veuve Perrin, 1991, exhibition catalogue, no. 261.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
122-1887

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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