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

Plate

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Worcester Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
James Giles Workshop (decorator)
Place of origin
Worcester (made)

Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with black and green enamels and with a gilded border. Scalloped edge. In the well is a landscape outlined in black and washed over in green, showing a milkmaid and a boy in front of a large urn on a pedestal. To the left are cows, a house and trees, and a church at the top of a hill. Gilded border consists of linked palmettes, alternatively long and short, pointing inwards.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Soft Paste Porcelain
Painted
Gilded
Brief description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, decorated in London, possibly in the workshop of James Giles, ca. 1770.
Physical description
Plate of soft-paste porcelain painted with black and green enamels and with a gilded border. Scalloped edge. In the well is a landscape outlined in black and washed over in green, showing a milkmaid and a boy in front of a large urn on a pedestal. To the left are cows, a house and trees, and a church at the top of a hill. Gilded border consists of linked palmettes, alternatively long and short, pointing inwards.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.5cm
Credit line
Given by Mrs Dora E. Grubbe
Object history
See notes to C.880-1935
Subjects depicted
Landscape
Milkmaids
Boys
Urns
Cows
Houses
Trees
Churches
Palmettes
Bibliographic references
  • Mallet, J.V.G.. Further thoughts on the Grubbe Plates. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 2012, vol. 23, pp. 213-229
  • Mitchell, Sir Stephen. The Grubbe Pieces: a review of the reasons for the James Giles attributions. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 2011, vol. 22, pp. 15-37.
  • Jacob-Hansen, Charlotte. A Giles Italianate Service: Fifteen Worcester Plates Reveal a Decorative Grand Tour. American Ceramics Journal, Vol. XVII, 2013, pp. 4-47. Illustrated fig. 18, 22p. The source for the ruined capital in the foreground is given as an engraving by François Vivares after Marco Ricci (1676-1729), illustrated with a detail, Figs. 16a and 16b.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.877-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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