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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. 1748-ca. 1754 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painted with a bouquet of cut flowers and the border with scattered cut sprigs; gilt dentil border


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours and with gilt rim
Brief description
Earthenware plate, painted with flowers and gilt dentil border, by Paul Hannong's pottery factory, Strasbourg, ca. 1748-ca. 1754
Physical description
Painted with a bouquet of cut flowers and the border with scattered cut sprigs; gilt dentil border
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Object history
Paper labels: 'CURIOSITÉS OBJETS D'ART WEINBERG GARANTIE Ancien No 509 34, rue de Provence' and 'No. 156'
Acquisition type: Gift
Production
Acquired as Niderviller; attributed to Fulda in 1912 and then to Kiel; reattributed to Strasbourg by comparison with a Paul Hannong-marked plate; subsequently considered German by M. Gilbert Levy. The plate was considered to be of the same class as C.579-1909 and C.25&A-1929, but although it has a similar gilt border to C.25&A-1929, the painting is less accomplished. The latter two are examples of a class of Strasbourg wares associated with the painter Christian-Wilhelm Löwenfink and dated to c. 1748-54: see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 36-7, and Historiches Museum, Basel, Strassburger Keramik, 1986, cat. 116-17.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.578-1909

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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