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

Plate

1816-1820 (made), 1818-1823 (decorated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with view of Esher Place and other small views. Lobed rim moulded with scrollwork and flowers in relief enriched by gilding and panels painted with minute views of country seats or ruins. In the middle is a landscape of Esher Place, Surrey. In the small panels on the rim are Benham in Berkshire, Hales Owen, West Clandon Place in Surrey, Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire, Valle Crucis Abbey in Denbighshire, and Brocket Hall in Hartfordshire.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded
Brief description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Nantgarw China Works, Nantgarw, 1816-1820, decorated in London 1816-1823.
Physical description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with view of Esher Place and other small views. Lobed rim moulded with scrollwork and flowers in relief enriched by gilding and panels painted with minute views of country seats or ruins. In the middle is a landscape of Esher Place, Surrey. In the small panels on the rim are Benham in Berkshire, Hales Owen, West Clandon Place in Surrey, Stoke Rochford in Lincolnshire, Valle Crucis Abbey in Denbighshire, and Brocket Hall in Hartfordshire.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
NANT-GARW C.W' (Impressed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Landscapes copied from engravings published between 1792-1802 in 'The Copper Plate Magazine. Possibly made at Swansea from Billingsley's recipe, and the decoration not carried out at the Nantgarw or Swansea factory. Formerly in the Alfred Trapnell Collection.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.589-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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