The V&A houses the greatest and most comprehensive collection of Ceramics in the world. The collection is particularly rich in Ceramics from Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Shipwrecked ceramics
Asian ceramics have been the subject of international and inter-Asian trade for over one thousand years. The bulk o…
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Real or Fake?
A complete and completely 'genuine' dish of medieval Iranian pottery turns out not to be as straightforward an obje…
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A Morris and De Morgan tile-panel
The early commissions of Morris and Company for decorative work at St James Palace (1865-67), the Green Dining-Room…
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Let them eat clay!
Among the less familiar objects in the new Ceramics Galleries, perhaps the most curious and engaging is a group of …
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Accidental Masterpiece
This stoneware bowl by the English potter Bernard Leach was given to the V&A by Lt-Colonel K. Dingwall, a generous …
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The Louis XII Triptych
The collection of Limoges painted enamels in the Victoria and Albert Museum includes several fine pieces of the ear…
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The formation of the Ceramics collections
The collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum are, in the fields of post-Medieval European, Middle Eastern and …
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Clare Twomey
Clare Twomey was the V&A's Ceramics Artist in Residence, July 2011-January 2012
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Phoebe Cummings
Phoebe Cummings was Ceramics Artist in Residence at the V&A, June-December 2010.
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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 - Open Studio - Louisa Taylor: Ceramics Resident
Sat 04 February 2012–Wed 20 June 2012
OPEN STUDIO: Visit the V&A Residency Studios to meet ceramics resident, Louisa Taylor. Find out about her research, creative practice and work in progress.
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