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

Plate

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

Circular plate on turned foot-ring (diameter 16.2 cm, height 2.5 cm); transfer-printed in dark red, with a repeating motif of a tulip plant with leaves, which has been over-painted with washes of pale enamels; the rim picked out with gilding (now rubbed).
The base has the printed factory mark in iron red of the imperial eagle (indicating the imperial warrant) above the St George and the dragon (for Moscow), the latter contained within an oval band with the factory name and Moscow in Cyrillic, which in turn is above an inscription in Arabic Printed pattern number '537.' in dark red enamel below factory mark
Painter's mark of three dots in grey enamel inside foot-ring
Condition:gilding at edge rubbed


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, thrown and turned and with clear glaze, printed in red enamel and over-painted in coloured enamels, and with gilt decoration
Brief description
Plate, hard-paste porcelain, transfer-printed and over-painted in enamels, and gilt, pattern number 537, made by and with the factory mark of the Gardner Porcelain factory, Moscow, about 1890-1917
Physical description
Circular plate on turned foot-ring (diameter 16.2 cm, height 2.5 cm); transfer-printed in dark red, with a repeating motif of a tulip plant with leaves, which has been over-painted with washes of pale enamels; the rim picked out with gilding (now rubbed).
The base has the printed factory mark in iron red of the imperial eagle (indicating the imperial warrant) above the St George and the dragon (for Moscow), the latter contained within an oval band with the factory name and Moscow in Cyrillic, which in turn is above an inscription in Arabic Printed pattern number '537.' in dark red enamel below factory mark
Painter's mark of three dots in grey enamel inside foot-ring
Condition:gilding at edge rubbed
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 16.2cm
  • Height: 2.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • (The base is printed in black with an inscription in Arabic)
  • (traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic)
  • '537.' (in dark red enamel below factory mark)
  • (Painter's mark of three dots in grey enamel 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
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.27-2004

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Record createdApril 26, 2004
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