Not currently on display at the V&A

Plate

ca. 1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. On the rim is a crest with a demi-figure of a man in black and gold dress holding a torch, beneath a pink ribbon with the motto 'VERTUS INVICTA GLORIOSA', painted in a small compartment reserved on a border of formal flowers with scrolled stems in gold on a pale salmon-red ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Plate of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Chamberlain & Co., Worcester, ca. 1820.
Physical description
Plate of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. On the rim is a crest with a demi-figure of a man in black and gold dress holding a torch, beneath a pink ribbon with the motto 'VERTUS INVICTA GLORIOSA', painted in a small compartment reserved on a border of formal flowers with scrolled stems in gold on a pale salmon-red ground.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'VERTUS INVICTA GLORIOSA' (Painted on the rim)
  • 'Chamberlains, WORCESTER, & 155, New Bond Street, London. Royal Porcelain Manufacturers between palm branches under a crown (Printed in black)
  • Transliteration
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Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
One of two plates with C.525-1935.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.525A-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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