Plate
ca. 1760 (made)
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Circular plate with wavy edge and a blue-grey glaze, the centre painted in dark and light blue with a stylised flower encirled by a band of trellised and floral ornament, and the border painted in 'bianco sopra bianco' with stylised plants
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and with <i>bianco sopra bianco</i> decoration |
| Brief description | Earthenware plate painted in blue, made by Pierre-François Fauquez's pottery factory, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, about 1760 |
| Physical description | Circular plate with wavy edge and a blue-grey glaze, the centre painted in dark and light blue with a stylised flower encirled by a band of trellised and floral ornament, and the border painted in 'bianco sopra bianco' with stylised plants |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'M' or 'W' painted in white |
| Credit line | Given by Mr Oliver van Oss |
| Object history | Paper label: printed 'O.V.O' and inscribed 'St. Amand-l-Eaux 1750 cf [?] for paste + shape V+A -- note Mark' |
| Production | Acquired as Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, c. 1760. For a similarly decorated sauceboat dated c. 1740 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Paris & Rouen - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 114 bottom centre. However, for strong arguments for a later dating see R. J. Charleston in Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 1963, pp 229-30. |
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| Accession number | C.60-1963 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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