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

Plate

ca. 1817-1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Lobed rim edged with a gilt dentil border. Within this is a band of pale green bearing a decoration of elongated curved sprays of flowers, and panels outlined with gilt C-scrolls and containing dot-diapers in gilt on a white ground reserved in the green. In the centre is a composition of fruits.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in colours and gilded
Brief description
Plate of porcelain painted in colours and gilded, Nantgarw China Works, Nantgarw, and decorated in London, ca. 1817-1820
Physical description
Plate of porcelain painted in colours and gilded. Lobed rim edged with a gilt dentil border. Within this is a band of pale green bearing a decoration of elongated curved sprays of flowers, and panels outlined with gilt C-scrolls and containing dot-diapers in gilt on a white ground reserved in the green. In the centre is a composition of fruits.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
'NANT-GARW / C.W.' (Impressed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Joseph Henry Jacobs
Production
Decorated in London.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.42-1950

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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