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

Dessert Plate

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular plate with lobed border, the centre painted in enamels with sylized exotic birds on rococo scrollwork, the border painted with scattered flowers and the rim picked out in maroon and blue


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
Brief description
Earthenware dessert plate decorated with exotic birds and flowers, by Aprey pottery factory, France, ca. 1775
Physical description
Circular plate with lobed border, the centre painted in enamels with sylized exotic birds on rococo scrollwork, the border painted with scattered flowers and the rim picked out in maroon and blue
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Production
Acquired as Aprey, second half of the 18th century. For similar Aprey decoration dated c. 1775 see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 144, bottom right.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.567-1909

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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