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

Serving Dish

ca. 1739-ca. 1745 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rectanguar dish, tin-glazed earthenware, with indented ends, the border painted with formal lambrequin ornament, the centre painted with a grotesque in the manner of Jean Bérain with Neptune and sphinxes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours
Brief description
Rectanguar dish, tin-glazed earthenware, the centre painted with a grotesque in the manner of Jean Bérain with Neptune and sphinxes, Olérys and Laugier's pottery factory, France, about 1739-1745
Physical description
Rectanguar dish, tin-glazed earthenware, with indented ends, the border painted with formal lambrequin ornament, the centre painted with a grotesque in the manner of Jean Bérain with Neptune and sphinxes.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'OL' (painted in yellow for Oléry and Laugier's factory)
  • 'JEB' painted in yellow in monogram for the painter Jean-Etienne Baron
Object history
Acquisition type: Purchase
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
332-1872

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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