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

Plate

ca. 1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular plate with deep well, painted in the manner of Chinese export porcelain, the border with reserved panels with Chinese emblems, the well with the arms of Breuil


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in manganese purple and cobalt blue
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware bowl or plate, made by Saint-Jean-du-Désert pottery factory, Marseilles, about 1700
Physical description
Circular plate with deep well, painted in the manner of Chinese export porcelain, the border with reserved panels with Chinese emblems, the well with the arms of Breuil
Marks and inscriptions
  • Paper label: 'COLLECTION COMTE R. COUSTANT D'YANVILLE No 296', 'Marseill[es] St. Jean du Désert'
  • Paper label: 'VANDERMEERSCH PORCELAINES FAIENCES ANCIENNE 31bis Rue des sts P[illegible]'
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Object history
For another from the same set, formerly in the Reynaud collection, see Marguerite Desnuelle, La Faïence à Marsaille au XVIIIe Siècle, Saint-Jean-du-Désert, Avignon, 1984, p. 149, where the arms are described as "1 et 4, armes des Breuil, 'Ancré de guele sur fond de sable'. Aux 2 et 3, 'deux chevrons surmontant un croissant et trois étoiles au-desus".
Acquisition type: Bequest
Production
Saint-Jean-du-Désert factory (Clérissy factory); Acquired as Marseilles, St-Jean-du-Désert, c. 1700.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.181-1951

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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