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

Plate

1885 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed and painted in overglaze colours. Decorated with two flower sprays, one pinkish red, the other yellow.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed and painted in overglaze colours
Brief description
Plate, lead-glazed earthenware transfer-printed and painted in overglaze colours, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1885
Physical description
Plate of lead-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed and painted in overglaze colours. Decorated with two flower sprays, one pinkish red, the other yellow.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'WEDGWOOD / BFH / F' (Impressed on the reverse)
  • 'a 1681 /"' (Painted in red)
Credit line
Given by Miss A. L. Wyatt
Object history
According to the curator of the Wedgwood Museum (W. A. Billington in 1969) the records show that the flowers on this plate were called "Morris Plants".
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.118-1978

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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