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

Plate

ca. 1739-ca. 1749 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, tin-glazed eathenware, with waved edge, the border painted with floral swags and medallions with classical busts, the centre with round panel with a woman in classical dress (Juno?) and a peacock in a landscape enclosed within a border of scrolling foliage


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed eathenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Plate, tin-glazed eathenware, with waved edge, painted with a woman in classical dress probably Juno, probably Olérys and Laugier's pottery factory, France, about 1739-1749
Physical description
Plate, tin-glazed eathenware, with waved edge, the border painted with floral swags and medallions with classical busts, the centre with round panel with a woman in classical dress (Juno?) and a peacock in a landscape enclosed within a border of scrolling foliage
Object history
Bought from the Aigoin Collection
Acquisition type: Purchase
Production
For similar plates attributed to Olérys and Laugier see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Moustiers and Marseilles - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1998, p. 33-4.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
461-1870

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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