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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. With a lobed rim and decorated in the centre with a pair of exotic birds in a landscape. On either side are plants with purple flowers. Border decorated with a running wave-pattern composed of flowers and cell-diapers painted in blue occupying the narrow lobes of the rim.


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. With a lobed rim and decorated in the centre with a pair of exotic birds in a landscape. On either side are plants with purple flowers. Border decorated with a running wave-pattern composed of flowers and cell-diapers painted in blue occupying the narrow lobes of the rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'NANTGARW / C.W.' (Impressed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Joseph Henry Jacobs
Production
Decorated in London.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.37-1950

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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