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

Beaker

ca. 1796-1813 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Beaker of porcelain. Inverted truncated cone-shape. On one side is a landscape with a large tree in the foreground, painted in enamel colours. Inside the rim, a formal border in pink and gold.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Beaker, porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, Pinxton Porcelain Factory, England, ca. 1796-1813
Physical description
Beaker of porcelain. Inverted truncated cone-shape. On one side is a landscape with a large tree in the foreground, painted in enamel colours. Inside the rim, a formal border in pink and gold.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.5cm
  • Diameter: 8.9cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
This piece has a glassy, translucent paste and was probaly made bfore Billingsley left the factory; compare a plate in the Museum, No. 3081-1901, and the note thereon in Catalogue of the Museum of Practical Geology, J. 102, p. 256.

Formerly in the William Bemrose Collection.
Bibliographic reference
Honey, W. B. Old English porcelain. London: Faber & Faber, 1948, Pl. 99A, p. 208.
Collection
Accession number
C.361-1935

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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