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

Tea Bowl

ca. 1775-1783 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea bowl of soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. No handle. Painted outside with a bouquet and detached sprays of flowers in colours and gilt. Border inside within straight and scalloped lines and dots in red.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded
Brief description
Tea bowl of soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded, possibly by Caughley Porcelain Factory, probably painted outside the factory, probably Shropshire, 1775-1783
Physical description
Tea bowl of soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded. No handle. Painted outside with a bouquet and detached sprays of flowers in colours and gilt. Border inside within straight and scalloped lines and dots in red.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.4cm
  • Depth: 7.6cm
Credit line
Given by Sydney Vacher, Esq.
Production
Possibly decorated elsewhere
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Caughley in Colour, exhibition catalogue, 2005, cat. 13, where identified as dating from before 1783
Collection
Accession number
C.318-1916

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Record createdMarch 24, 2004
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