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

Rice Dish

ca.1870-ca.1917 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular rice dish on turned foot-ring (diameter 24.5 cm, height 5 cm); the interior painted in orange and iron red enamels with bands with reserved panels containing enamelled and gilt sprigs, and with concentric bands and stylised sprigs, the enamelling enhanced in places with finely painted linear gilding; the underside plain.
The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic (probably the factory mark, Arabic versions of which were introduced in about 1890) within a geometrical cartouche; there are also traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic and '3' impressed Painted pattern number '52.' in iron red enamel, and painted workman's mark of a dot in cobalt blue, both inside foot-ring.
Condition: Gilding rubbed


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, thrown and turned and with clear glaze, painted in puce enamels and gilt and with printed and impressed marks
Brief description
Rice dish, hard-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt, pattern number 52 and printed mark in Arabic in black, made by and with the impressed mark of the Gardner Porcelain factory, Moscow, about 1890-1917
Physical description
Circular rice dish on turned foot-ring (diameter 24.5 cm, height 5 cm); the interior painted in orange and iron red enamels with bands with reserved panels containing enamelled and gilt sprigs, and with concentric bands and stylised sprigs, the enamelling enhanced in places with finely painted linear gilding; the underside plain.
The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic (probably the factory mark, Arabic versions of which were introduced in about 1890) within a geometrical cartouche; there are also traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic and '3' impressed Painted pattern number '52.' in iron red enamel, and painted workman's mark of a dot in cobalt blue, both inside foot-ring.
Condition: Gilding rubbed
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.5cm
  • Height: 5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • (The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic (probably the factory mark, Arabic versions of which were introduced in about 1890) within a geometrical cartouche;)
  • (traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic)
  • '3' (impressed)
  • '52.' (Painted pattern number in iron red enamel, inside foot-ring)
  • (painted workman's mark of a dot in cobalt blue, inside foot-ring)
Credit line
Presented by Lewis Baxter through Art Fund
Object history
Made for the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Market and acquired by the donor in Iran
Collection
Accession number
C.25-2004

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Record createdApril 26, 2004
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