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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. 1720-ca. 1730 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Large oval dish with moulded gadrooned border and painted border of interlacing ornament and busts, the centre painted in blue with grotesque ornament in the manner of Jean Bérain with Daphne and Apollo


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Brief description
Large oval serving dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with grotesque ornament in the manner of Jean Bérain, Clérissy pottery factory, Moustiers-Sainte Marie, about 1720-1730
Physical description
Large oval dish with moulded gadrooned border and painted border of interlacing ornament and busts, the centre painted in blue with grotesque ornament in the manner of Jean Bérain with Daphne and Apollo
Object history
Bought from the Fétis Collection
Acquisition type: Purchase
Production
Acquired as Moustiers, 1700-45; reattributed to Olerys factory, about 1715 (howevery Olerys factory ran from 1739-49).
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
124-1887

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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