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

Plate

1864 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of whitish stoneware. Standing on three small hemispherical feet, narrow up-turned rim; decorated in the middle with a circular panel, moulded in counter-sunk relief with a landscape, with a man, a woman, and a hooded figure in a boat, with mountains behind, under a dark green glaze; within a broad border with a raised pattern of interlaced lines, forming a series of pointed arches, under a pinkish brown glaze. The back decorated with mottled yellow and light green glazes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Glazed stoneware with moulded decoration
Brief description
Plate, glazed stoneware with moulded decoration, made at the factory of Josiah Wedgwood, England, 1864
Physical description
Plate of whitish stoneware. Standing on three small hemispherical feet, narrow up-turned rim; decorated in the middle with a circular panel, moulded in counter-sunk relief with a landscape, with a man, a woman, and a hooded figure in a boat, with mountains behind, under a dark green glaze; within a broad border with a raised pattern of interlaced lines, forming a series of pointed arches, under a pinkish brown glaze. The back decorated with mottled yellow and light green glazes.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 16.8cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Wedgwood' (impressed)
  • year-letter for 1864 (impressed)
Gallery label
Plate Made at the factory of Josiah Wedgwood, England, 1864 Marks: 'Wedgwood' and the year-letter for 1864, impressed Stoneware with moulded decoration C.297-1921 Given by C.H. Campbell(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Given by C. H. Campbell, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.297-1921

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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