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

Plate

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

Lobed octagonal earthenware plate painted with a border of interlacing ornament, the centre with a coat of arms surmounted by a coronet and supported by two leopards regardant, ermine; the shield is partly per saltire azure and argent, and has the star of an order suspended from the base


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed eathenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Octagonal earthenware plate, the centre painted with a coat of arms, Olérys and Laugier's pottery factory, France (Moustiers-Sainte Marie), about 1739-1749
Physical description
Lobed octagonal earthenware plate painted with a border of interlacing ornament, the centre with a coat of arms surmounted by a coronet and supported by two leopards regardant, ermine; the shield is partly per saltire azure and argent, and has the star of an order suspended from the base
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'OL' (Painted in monogram in ochre)
  • Unidentified painter's mark 'P.' painted in blue
Object history
Bought from Mons. Duseigneur, 3 Rue de l'Abbaye, Paris
Production
Acquired as Moustiers, mid-18th century.
The Bowes Museum has a similar plate, according to a note in the Register.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
707-1897

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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