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

Dish

mid 1930s (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
A. E. Gray & Co. Ltd. (decorating firm)
Johnson Brothers Ltd. (maker)
Place of origin
Staffordshire (manufactured)

Earthenware dish, circular, painted with a lion rampant among foliage in sivler lustre.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with painted decoration in lustre
Earthenware
Lustre (Ceramics Decoration)
Painted
Brief description
Dish, earthenware with painted decoration in lustre, manufactured by Johnson Brothers Ltd., decorated by Gray's Pottery, England, mid 1930s.
Physical description
Earthenware dish, circular, painted with a lion rampant among foliage in sivler lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 31.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '"SUNBUFF" GRAYS POTTERY MADE IN STOKE-ON-TRENT ENGLAND' with clipper trademark (Transfer printed)
  • A crown (Transfer printed and partly covered by another mark)
  • 'New Victorian' (In black letter script)
  • 'JOHNSON BROS ENGLAND' (Transfer printed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Michael Franklin
Subjects depicted
Lions (Animals)
Foliate
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.277-1987

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Record createdOctober 28, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O170857/dish-a-e-gray/
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