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

Panel

1752 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Panel of hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded. Square in shape. Painted in seven oval medallions enclosed by gilt rococo scrollwork and terminating the branches of a tree showing roots, leaves and berries with portraits of the family von Kaysers of Pressnitz, consisting of a man with his wife and five children. In the seventh medallion, which is blank, is inscribed 'in Spe.'. At the base of the tree is a classical female figure holding a shield of arms, consisting of a red stag running to the left and on a chief is a rosette between two gold stars. On the back is an inscription giving particulars of the family.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded
Brief description
Panel of hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded, painted by F.F. Mayer in Pressnitz, Meissen porcelain factory, Meissen, 1752.
Physical description
Panel of hard-paste porcelain painted with colours and gilded. Square in shape. Painted in seven oval medallions enclosed by gilt rococo scrollwork and terminating the branches of a tree showing roots, leaves and berries with portraits of the family von Kaysers of Pressnitz, consisting of a man with his wife and five children. In the seventh medallion, which is blank, is inscribed 'in Spe.'. At the base of the tree is a classical female figure holding a shield of arms, consisting of a red stag running to the left and on a chief is a rosette between two gold stars. On the back is an inscription giving particulars of the family.
Dimensions
  • Length: 13.7cm
  • Width: 13.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Francisicus Ferdi: Mayer. Pinxit d. 15 Juny.1752' (Signed and dated on the base)
  • '10' (Impressed)
  • 'in Spe.' (Inscribed in red in the blank medallion)
  • (Inscription giving the particulars of the family)
Credit line
Purchased through the Murray Bequest Fund
Object history
Bought out of the funds of the Capt. H.B. Murray Bequest.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.117-1937

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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