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

Bowl

ca. 1766 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and in the middle are the arms of Nicholas Loftus, and the sides are scalloped and decorated internally with gilt floral strays on a dark powder-blue ground edged with gilt scrollwork, and the arms consist of a shield with supporters of two eagles, wings inverted, argent, each charged on the breast with a trefoil slipped azure, and motto 'LOYAL AU MORT', and the earl's coronet is surmounted by a helmet bearing the crest of a boar's head erased and erect argent langued gules, and garlands of flowers are trailed in the interspaces.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and in the middle are the arms of Nicholas Loftus and the sides are scalloped, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1766.
Physical description
Bowl of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and in the middle are the arms of Nicholas Loftus, and the sides are scalloped and decorated internally with gilt floral strays on a dark powder-blue ground edged with gilt scrollwork, and the arms consist of a shield with supporters of two eagles, wings inverted, argent, each charged on the breast with a trefoil slipped azure, and motto 'LOYAL AU MORT', and the earl's coronet is surmounted by a helmet bearing the crest of a boar's head erased and erect argent langued gules, and garlands of flowers are trailed in the interspaces.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.3cm
  • Diameter: 29.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A fretted square (In blue)
  • 'LOYAL AU MORT' (Below the crest)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Button, London, for £20 in October 1884
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 523 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:523-1885

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Record createdJanuary 20, 2009
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