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

Plate

ca. 1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of hard-paste porcelain. Moulded with a wide border of reeding. Painted with a spray of flowers and leaves with insects, enclosed by a border of festoons of leaves and flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Plate, hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin, Germany (Berlin), ca. 1840
Physical description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain. Moulded with a wide border of reeding. Painted with a spray of flowers and leaves with insects, enclosed by a border of festoons of leaves and flowers.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A sceptre above 'KPM', printed in blue
  • 'F.U.' in blue (Under the foot rind)
  • '34' over three vertical lines (Incised on the foot rind)
Credit line
Given by C. H. Campbell, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.299-1921

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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