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

Stand

ca. 1830 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Stand for sugar-basin, porcelain. Circular, with wavy edge; painted with bouquets of flowers in natural colours, in the middle, and in three panels edged with gilt scrolls reserved on the salmon-red ground of the rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt
Brief description
Stand for sugar-basin, porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, Spode Ceramic Works, England, ca. 1830
Physical description
Stand for sugar-basin, porcelain. Circular, with wavy edge; painted with bouquets of flowers in natural colours, in the middle, and in three panels edged with gilt scrolls reserved on the salmon-red ground of the rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 19.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Spode Felspar Porcelain' within a wreath of rose, thistle and shamrock (Printed in crimson)
  • '5062' (Written in gold)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Rackam, Bernard. Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain. 2nd ed., London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Ceramics, Printed under the authority of his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1923, p. 143, Cat. no. 570
Collection
Accession number
C.733A-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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