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

Plate

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated in imitation of Chinese porcelain. The surface is divided into four compartments within a border of diaper-pattern interrupted by panels enclosing flowers. The compartments contain alternately a grotesque monster and a group of flower-vases on a table in various colours and gold. With a scalloped rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770
Physical description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Decorated in imitation of Chinese porcelain. The surface is divided into four compartments within a border of diaper-pattern interrupted by panels enclosing flowers. The compartments contain alternately a grotesque monster and a group of flower-vases on a table in various colours and gold. With a scalloped rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.6cm
Style
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
Part of a set of four dessert dishes C.433 to C-1935 and six plates C.433D to I-1935.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.433H-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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