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

Plate

1899 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of buff-coloured earthenware, covered on the upper side with a white slip, with sgraffito decoration painted with splashes of colour under a clear glaze. In the middle is a symmetrical foliated device within a blue border, surrounded by a repeating floral pattern partly coloured with yellow and green.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with <i>sgraffito</i> decoration painted in colour under a clear glaze
Brief description
Plate, earthenware with sgraffito decoration painted in colour under a clear glaze, made by Carlo and Giano Loretz & Co., Italy (Milan), 1899
Physical description
Plate of buff-coloured earthenware, covered on the upper side with a white slip, with sgraffito decoration painted with splashes of colour under a clear glaze. In the middle is a symmetrical foliated device within a blue border, surrounded by a repeating floral pattern partly coloured with yellow and green.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Loretz Milano 99' incised
Object history
Made by Carlo and Giano Loretz & Co. of Milan, as a copy of an Italian fruttiera of the 16th century in the Museum at Brescia.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
1308-1900

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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