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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 145

Dish

ca. 1825 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This dish, filled with peas and pease blossom is an example of porcelain modelled after nature. It is one of a pair, its partner dish being filled with walnuts. In style it is of the English Rococo revival.

Rococo style came to England from France in the 1730s, was out of fashion by the 1770s and enjoyed a long revival from about 1820. English companies such as Coalport catered for the enthusiasm for eighteenth-century porcelain of French and German factories such as Sèvres and Meissen, with their swirling forms and bright sugary colours.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Bone china painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Circular dish of bone china, painted with enamels and with a gilt openwork border and four small scrolled feet, made by Minton & Co., Stoke-on-Trent, ca. 1825.
Physical description
Circular dish of bone china, painted with enamels and with a gilt openwork border and four small scrolled feet, and filled with green peas in their shells and pease blossom amongst them.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7cm
  • Diameter: 18.5cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
One of a pair with 414:810-1885 (Sch. I 802).
Acquired as 'Colebrook Dale' porcelain.
These dishes were purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Skinner, London for £3 3 shillings in April 1871.
Production
Previously attributed to Coalport
Subject depicted
Summary
This dish, filled with peas and pease blossom is an example of porcelain modelled after nature. It is one of a pair, its partner dish being filled with walnuts. In style it is of the English Rococo revival.

Rococo style came to England from France in the 1730s, was out of fashion by the 1770s and enjoyed a long revival from about 1820. English companies such as Coalport catered for the enthusiasm for eighteenth-century porcelain of French and German factories such as Sèvres and Meissen, with their swirling forms and bright sugary colours.
Other number
Sch. I 802A - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:810/A-1885

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Record createdDecember 18, 2008
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