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

Dessert Dish

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular dish with 18 lobes and scalloped edge picked out in maroon and blue, the centre painted with a floral bouquet in enamels; the footrim has two glazed suspension holes


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
Brief description
Circular dish of tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels, made by Aprey pottery factory, France, about 1775
Physical description
Circular dish with 18 lobes and scalloped edge picked out in maroon and blue, the centre painted with a floral bouquet in enamels; the footrim has two glazed suspension holes
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Production
Acquired as Aprey, c. 1765. For similar border on an Aprey plate dated c. 1775 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 145 top right.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.246-1951

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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