Handmade in Britain: mobile content
Handmade in Britain mobile web content has been developed by the V&A to enable visitors to find out more about many…
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Room 142: Ceramics 20th-century studio
The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery contains experimental and avant garde ceramics which trace the development of s…
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Room 144: Architectural Ceramics
The Headley Trust Gallery contains a fine selection of tiles and other dramatic large-scale ceramics. It includes …
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Room 137: Ceramics Study Galleries Asia and Europe
The Curtain Foundation Gallery houses the greater part of the V&A’s ceramics collection. In this room you will find…
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Room 139: Ceramics Study Galleries Britain and Europe
The Curtain Foundation Gallery houses the greater part of the V&A’s ceramics collection. In this room you will find…
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Room 138: Ceramics Study Galleries Britain
In the Harry and Carol Djanogly study Gallery you will find British pottery made before 1800.
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Room 136: Ceramics Study Galleries China
The Curtain Foundation Gallery Ceramic Study Gallery houses the greater part of the V&A’s ceramics collection. In t…
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Room 141: Contemporary Ceramics
The McAulay Gallery has the best of contemporary ceramics from Europe, Asia and North America on display. The galle…
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Room 140: Factory Ceramics after 1900
This gallery contains factory-made ceramics by the leading designers and manufacturers of the 20th century.…
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Room 143: Making Ceramics
The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery forms one of two principal galleries, this large space is devoted to methods and tech…
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Room 146: Ceramics temporary displays
Temporary Display: Richard Slee (born 1946) has worked in ceramics for 30 years and, though his work is not defined…
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Room 145: World Ceramics
This second principal gallery offers a chronological and world-wide introduction to ceramics with objects from the …
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Room 53a: More Rococo & Developments in Ceramics
Room 53a delves further into the asymmetrical Rococo style . Motifs which typify the style such as 'C' and 'S' scro…
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Transforming the Ceramics galleries: an exercise in restraint
A life-size Meissen porcelain sculpture of a goat (C.111-1932) modelled by J J Kä ndler will be placed on open display.
Queensberry Hunt: Ceramic Design
14 April – 2 September 2012. The ceramic design consultancy Queensberry Hunt has been responsible for some of the most familiar and best-selling tableware of recent years. This display showcases four decades of their design, including new projects.
Richard Slee: From Utility to Futility (essay)
An essay by Amanda Fielding on Richard Slee: From Utility to Futility, the first major solo exhibition at the V&A for the 'Grand Wizard of Studio Ceramics.
Let them eat clay!
Among the less familiar objects in the new Ceramics Galleries, perhaps the most curious and engaging is a group of polished clay vessels known as búcaros, which were made in the region around Tonalá in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
The new paintings galleries
The New Paintings Galleries at the V& A have just opened to the public. The practical conservation of the paintings started exactly a year ago in November 2002. One hundred and sixty-seven of the 200 oil paintings on display required some work and we had just under one year in which to complete it.
Donate to the Stained Glass Appeal
We are currently working on an exciting project to conserve and re-install the original stained glass on the landings of the Manfred and Lydia Gorvy Lecture Theatre. We need your help to raise £75,000 to bring these historical features back to their former glory for us all to enjoy.
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Signs and Wonders: Edmund de Waal and the V&A Ceramics Galleries
Accompanies an ambitious new installation in the V&A Ceramic Galleries based on the V&A's world renowned ceramics colletion
Buy nowEvent - Fire, Earth and Water: East Asian Pottery and Porcelain
Tue 23 April 2013 10:30
SHORT COURSE: Explore the fascinating ceramic traditions of East Asia, focusing on the key regions of China, Korea
and Japan.
