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

Rice Bowl

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

Circular rice dish on turned foot-ring (diameter 27.5 cm, height 4.7 cm); the interior transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a repeating floral pattern derived from Isnik pottery, the underside plain.
Factory mark printed in blue of the imperial eagle (indicating the imperial warrant) above an inscription in Cyrillic (Dankert, Directory of European Porcelain, 1981, p. 291, top line no. 3); traces of impressed factory mark of St George above an Cyrillic inscription (ibid., p. 290, bottom line, no. 2); workmen's marks (?): a cross and a stroke incised
Condition: chips to footring and to rim


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
White earthenware, thrown and turned and with clear glaze, transfer-printed in underglaze blue
Brief description
Rice dish, earthenware, transfer-printed in underglaze blue, made by and with the impressed and printed marks of the Gardner Porcelain factory, Moscow, about 1890-1917
Physical description
Circular rice dish on turned foot-ring (diameter 27.5 cm, height 4.7 cm); the interior transfer-printed in underglaze blue with a repeating floral pattern derived from Isnik pottery, the underside plain.
Factory mark printed in blue of the imperial eagle (indicating the imperial warrant) above an inscription in Cyrillic (Dankert, Directory of European Porcelain, 1981, p. 291, top line no. 3); traces of impressed factory mark of St George above an Cyrillic inscription (ibid., p. 290, bottom line, no. 2); workmen's marks (?): a cross and a stroke incised
Condition: chips to footring and to rim
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27.5cm
  • Height: 4.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • (traces of an impressed factory mark of imperial eagle and factory name in Cyrillic)
  • a cross and a stroke (workmen's marks (?), incised)
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.31-2004

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Record createdApril 26, 2004
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