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

Tea Bowl and Saucer

ca. 1805-1814 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea bowl and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, with soft-looking glaze. Decorated with a Chinese export pattern of flower sprays and with borders of iron red flower sprays with black leaves contained in panels reserved on a pink diaper ground. At the very rim a pattern like ermine markings in pink.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Saucer
  • Tea Bowl
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels
Brief description
Tea bowl and saucer, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels; possibly Coalport Porcelain Factory, England (Coalport), ca. 1805-14
Physical description
Tea bowl and saucer of hard-paste porcelain, with soft-looking glaze. Decorated with a Chinese export pattern of flower sprays and with borders of iron red flower sprays with black leaves contained in panels reserved on a pink diaper ground. At the very rim a pattern like ermine markings in pink.
Dimensions
  • Tea bowl diameter: 8.7cm
  • Saucer diameter: 13.9cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs Mary Blande Dick
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.43&A-1974

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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