Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 136, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, porcelain, of shallow octagonal form with spreading rim, painted in famille rose enamels and gold with arms of Peach quartering Small with in pretence and accollée Cockburn. All over design is painted within a black and gold border of a Chinese family in a garden by a house, a boy flying a butterfly kite, a river landscape behind. The arms are marshalled in an interesting manner; Peach of Rooksmore in Gloucs. Granted in 1769, Gules three martlets between two chevronels argent (tinctures transposed) with a crest which should be A demi lion rampant per fess ermine and gules ducally crowned or, quartering Small, Sable on a bend argent three roses gules barbed vert, in the sinister chief point a chess rook of the second, with a coat of pretence and the same accollée, Or three cocks gules, probably for Cockburn. The two shields are set in an elaborate framework interlaced with floral sprays.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels and gold
Brief description
Plate, porcelain, painted in famille rose enamels and gold with coat of arms, China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign period, ca. 1770
Physical description
Plate, porcelain, of shallow octagonal form with spreading rim, painted in famille rose enamels and gold with arms of Peach quartering Small with in pretence and accollée Cockburn. All over design is painted within a black and gold border of a Chinese family in a garden by a house, a boy flying a butterfly kite, a river landscape behind. The arms are marshalled in an interesting manner; Peach of Rooksmore in Gloucs. Granted in 1769, Gules three martlets between two chevronels argent (tinctures transposed) with a crest which should be A demi lion rampant per fess ermine and gules ducally crowned or, quartering Small, Sable on a bend argent three roses gules barbed vert, in the sinister chief point a chess rook of the second, with a coat of pretence and the same accollée, Or three cocks gules, probably for Cockburn. The two shields are set in an elaborate framework interlaced with floral sprays.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.2cm
Styles
Credit line
Given by Mr P. Cooke
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Howard, David Santuary. Chinese Armorial Porcelain. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1974, p. 346
  • Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.44, pl.48
Collection
Accession number
FE.65-1978

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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