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

Plate

ca. 1780-1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Octagonal in shape. The rim is painted with a wavy wreath of foliage in green intertwined with a fine brown stem bearing small flowers and leaves in crimson and green within a wide brown band. Small sprigs of crimson flowers are scattered over the middle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels
Brief description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, Imperial Vienna Porcelain factory, Vienna, ca. 1780-1790
Physical description
Plate of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Octagonal in shape. The rim is painted with a wavy wreath of foliage in green intertwined with a fine brown stem bearing small flowers and leaves in crimson and green within a wide brown band. Small sprigs of crimson flowers are scattered over the middle.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A shield with the arms of Austria above a dot (In blue)
  • '101' (In crimson)
  • '33' (Incised)
  • '87' (Incised)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Kate Bentley
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.113-1911

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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