Soup Plate

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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Creil Pottery Factory (manufacturer) Stone, Coquerel and Le Gros (transfer-printed by)
Place of origin	France (made) Paris (printed)

Octagonal soup plate of creamware (faïence fine), transfer-printed in black. the well transfer-printed with a landscape identified as 'CHATEAU DE HIGH CLIFF Comté d'Hamps Angleterre' and the flange with wine cups and thyrsi alternating with six-pointed stars (the landscape is after an engraving by William Watts, possibly included in The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry published by Boydell (titlepage dated 1779, but with plates dated 1779-86) after an original watercolour by Adam Callender now at the V&A dated 1783).

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Category	Ceramics
Object type	Soup plate
Materials and techniques	Creamware (faïence fine), transfer-printed in black Earthenware Transfer-Printed
Brief description	Octagonal soup plate of creamware (faïence fine), transfer-printed in black, Creil pottery factory, France, 1808-1818.
Physical description	Octagonal soup plate of creamware (faïence fine), transfer-printed in black. the well transfer-printed with a landscape identified as 'CHATEAU DE HIGH CLIFF Comté d'Hamps Angleterre' and the flange with wine cups and thyrsi alternating with six-pointed stars (the landscape is after an engraving by William Watts, possibly included in The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry published by Boydell (titlepage dated 1779, but with plates dated 1779-86) after an original watercolour by Adam Callender now at the V&A dated 1783).
Marks and inscriptions	'CREIL' impressed (;) printed circular mark in black: 'SCL' in monogram with 'PAR BREVET D'INVENTION-PARIS-Manufre d'Impression sur Faience, Porcelaine etc' (; ;) '26' printed in black (; ;)
Gallery label	(07/06/2004) Gallery 128 Decant 2003 The landscape is after an engraving by William Watts, possibly included in The Seats of the Nobility and Gentry published by Boydell (titlepage dated 1779, but with plates dated 1779-86) after an original watercolour by Adam Callender now at the V&A dated 1783.
Credit line	Bequeathed by Mrs T. R. P. Hole
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.239-1987

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Record created	October 20, 1998
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O9373/soup-plate-creil-pottery-factory/

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