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

Dish

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, porcelain, with a rim shaped in four pointed lobes, painted in famille rose enamels and gold with the arms of Drake. In the centre is the design of two pheasants on a rock with peonies. Round the rim is a border of rocaille work in European style with elements of shells and also what appear to be pottery kilns with vents sprouting smoke and cartwheels. Below is a roccoco shield containing the arms of Drake, Awyvern with wings displayed and tail nowed; the crest is not recorded (in the form of a castle?).

The arms could also be of Venables (Argent a wyvren passant gules). The arms are similar to another, with a different crest, made for the Drake family of Shardeloes in Buckinghamshire and identical to a tea service mae a little later. These two may have been made for Captain Richard Drake of the Hawk, at Canton in 1758.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in enamels and gold
Brief description
Dish, porcelain, painted in famille rose enamels and gold with coat of arms, China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign, ca. 1750
Physical description
Plate, porcelain, with a rim shaped in four pointed lobes, painted in famille rose enamels and gold with the arms of Drake. In the centre is the design of two pheasants on a rock with peonies. Round the rim is a border of rocaille work in European style with elements of shells and also what appear to be pottery kilns with vents sprouting smoke and cartwheels. Below is a roccoco shield containing the arms of Drake, Awyvern with wings displayed and tail nowed; the crest is not recorded (in the form of a castle?).

The arms could also be of Venables (Argent a wyvren passant gules). The arms are similar to another, with a different crest, made for the Drake family of Shardeloes in Buckinghamshire and identical to a tea service mae a little later. These two may have been made for Captain Richard Drake of the Hawk, at Canton in 1758.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.3cm
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. 337
  • Kerr, Rose and Luisa E. Mengoni Chinese Export Ceramics London: V&A Publishing, 2011, p.42, pl.47
Collection
Accession number
FE.62-1978

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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