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

Basin

ca. 1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oval, the rim with moulded scrollwork picked out in pinkish red, the centre painted with flowers, and with manufacturing flaw masked by leaf painted in green and black


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware basin, painted flowers, possibly made at Lunéville pottery factory, France, ca. 1760-1770
Physical description
Oval, the rim with moulded scrollwork picked out in pinkish red, the centre painted with flowers, and with manufacturing flaw masked by leaf painted in green and black
Credit line
Purchased through the Bequest of Captain H. B. Murray
Object history
Bought from the Rosenheim Sale 3 May 1923, lot 218, where described as a Höchst rosewater ewer and dish (for ewer, which does not match, see C.251&A-1923)
Production
Catalogued as Höchst in the Rosenheim sale; acquired as Marseilles; examined in 1931 by Hans Haug, Director of Strasbourg Museum, who suggested an attribution to a Lorraine factory; reattributed to Lunéville, ca. 1760-80; for an example of the ewer attributed to Lunéville and dated 1760-70 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 108 (top); however, the painting on this basin does not match the ewer.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.251B-1923

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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