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

Odin

Fish Plate
ca. 1939 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Earthenware fish plate with slip decoration of fish in brown, black, yellow and greens and underglaze painted enamel on a green ground. Shape 1542; pattern 1895.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleOdin (series title)
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with slip and underglaze painted enamel decoration
Brief description
Fish plate, part of a tableware range 'Odin', earthenware with slip decoration of fish, designed by Nils Thorsson, made by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, ca. 1939.
Physical description
Earthenware fish plate with slip decoration of fish in brown, black, yellow and greens and underglaze painted enamel on a green ground. Shape 1542; pattern 1895.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Three wavy lines (Printed in brown)
  • 'DENMARK*' (Printed in brown)
  • '1895 / 1542' (Painted in brown)
  • 'R' (Impressed)
  • 'KF. 5' (Impressed)
  • 'NT' in monogram (Impressed)
Object history
Part of a tableware range 'Odin' [Circ.267, 270-1939].
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 42 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.267-1939

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Record createdSeptember 26, 2008
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