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

Spaniel & Wounded Pheasant

Plate
1814-1816 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and painted in an eight-sided panel with a broad gilt border, on a pale salmon-pink ground veined with gilding in imitation of marble, is a spaniel appearing from under a bush in pursuit of a pheasant in a wooded landscape, and the rim is encircled by a formal gilt border.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSpaniel & Wounded Pheasant (series title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Plate of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, probably painted by Humphrey Chamberlain, Jr, and made by Chamberlain Worcester, Worcester, 1814-1816.
Physical description
Plate of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and painted in an eight-sided panel with a broad gilt border, on a pale salmon-pink ground veined with gilding in imitation of marble, is a spaniel appearing from under a bush in pursuit of a pheasant in a wooded landscape, and the rim is encircled by a formal gilt border.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Spaniel & wounded pheasant / [a short horizontal stroke] / Chamberlains / Worcester / & 63 Piccadilly / London' (In red on the back. The mark was used from 1814 to 1816 when the London warehouse for Messrs. Chamberlain's works was in Piccadilly.)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
The subject of the painting is copied from a plate, engraved by J. Scott after a painting by S. Elmer, facing p.44 in vol. iii of Rural Sportsby W. B. Daniell, published 1801-1802.
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 612 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
326:3-1889

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Record createdJanuary 27, 2009
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