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

Plate

1814-1817 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Soup-plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Lobed rim moulded with scrollwork and flowers in relief in panels. In the middle is a painting of two children walking in a mountainous landscape.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded
Brief description
Soup-plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and moulded, Swansea Pottery, Swansea, decorated in London, 1814-1817.
Physical description
Soup-plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels. Lobed rim moulded with scrollwork and flowers in relief in panels. In the middle is a painting of two children walking in a mountainous landscape.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.9cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Possibly made at Swansea from Billingsley's recipe. The figure-subject was probably painted outside the factory, perhaps in London by Plant for the enameller Charles Muss. Formerly in the Alfred Trapnell Collection (from the register).
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.590-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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