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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dinner Plate

1993 (designed), 1993 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dinner plate of white earthenware, hand-painted with a design of two white farmyard geese in yellow, black and greyish-green, on a green ground with yellow border and green band on rim. The plate is glazed on both sides with a clear glaze.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
White earthenware, hand-painted underglaze decoration
Brief description
Dinner plate, hand-painted earthenware, 'Aubergine', designed by Suzanne Katkhuda, England, 1993.
Physical description
Dinner plate of white earthenware, hand-painted with a design of two white farmyard geese in yellow, black and greyish-green, on a green ground with yellow border and green band on rim. The plate is glazed on both sides with a clear glaze.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 28.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'AUBERGINE' (Painted on border of plate, for the restaurant of that name)
  • 'Suzanne Katkhuda / Sept '93' (Painted in green on base)
Credit line
Given by Suzanne Katkhuda
Object history
Designed as a cover plate, exclusively for Gordon Ramsay's restaurant, Aubergine.

Holdenby Designs was established by Suzanne Katkhuda and Jim Powell in 1987 to manufacture and sell Katkhuda's designs. The company was first based in the stable yard of Holdenby House, a stately home in Northamptonshire. These premises were rapidly outgrown, and at the end of 1991 the company moved to the nearby village of Brixworth. In 1993, further premises were acquired in Parsonage Street, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, where white earthenware was produced.
Production
The blank plate made at Parsonage Street, Tunstall, but decorated at Brixworth.
Association
Collection
Accession number
C.47-2011

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Record createdJune 20, 2011
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