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

Ewer

1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Ewer of tin-glazed earthenware. Moulded and painted with scalloping, scrollwork and flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, moulded and painted in enamel colours
Brief description
Ewer, earthenware moulded and painted with scalloping, scrollwork and flowers, Lunéville pottery factory, France, 1760-1770
Physical description
Ewer of tin-glazed earthenware. Moulded and painted with scalloping, scrollwork and flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.4cm
  • Diameter: 12.7cm
Object history
Bought from the Bandinel Collection
Production
Acquired as Marseilles; labelled as Marseilles c. 1760; examined in 1931 by Hans Haug, Director of Strasbourg Museum, who suggested an attribution to Sceaux; relabelled as Lunéville, c. 1760-80; for an example attributed to Lunéville and dated 1760-70 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 108 (top). For another of this shape with cover and basin that does not match see C.251 to B-1923.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
2995-1853

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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