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Deep circular depression with an applied roundel in the centre with a border of four fillets enclosing a composition of a hare wearing a sword belt and scabbard, but dropping his sword and buckler, between two truncated trees, one with a singing bird and the other with a parrot.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"William Burges","id":"A8201"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"John Hardman & Co.","id":"A9144"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"raising","id":"AAT237068"},{"text":"engraving","id":"AAT53829"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, raised and engraved","categories":[{"text":"Eating","id":"THES48963"},{"text":"Food vessels & Tableware","id":"THES48952"},{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[{"text":"Gothic Revival","id":"AAT21452"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2006AV5632"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES403992"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Soup Plate","id":"AAT198537"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Birmingham","id":"x28748"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"designed","id":"x29338"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1868","earliest":"1868-01-01","latest":"1868-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Thomas Lumley","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"27.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"IOHANNES / PATRICIUS / CRICHTON / STUART / MARCHIO:DE / BUTA:ME / FIERI:FECIT / MDCCCLXVIII","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"John Patrick Crichton Stuart, Marquess of Bute, had me made, 1868","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed on the edge of the plate."},{"content":"L / EPU / S P / AV / ID / US","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Frightened hare","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed in the centre of the plate."}],"objectHistory":"William Burges designed a set of 24 soup dishes for the Marquess of Bute, probably in 1867-68.  The drawings survive in the Bute archive.  Each carried a visual pun, i.e. a sheep dressed as a highlander for Scotch broth.  Presumably this specimen was designed for hare soup.  A dish engraved with an identical hare medallion is among the 24 dishes still in the possession of the present Marquess, so that this specimen is additional to the set.  There are differences, however, which became obvious when the present Marquess took his hare soup dish to Thomas Lumley's premises to compare it with the one in the latter's possession.  Firstly, the specimen given to the Museum by Mr. Lumley has never been gilt; secondly, the depression is deeper in the V&A example.\n\nThe gift of the soup dish was made in time for it to be included ex-catalogue in the exhibition, The Stange Genius of William Burges, held at the V&A in 1981.  Two soup dishes and two fish plates, lent anonymously by Lord Bute, were shown as cat.no. C.75 but the description is erroneous, as it describes the device as enclosed in an eight printed star which applies to the fish plate but not to the soup plates.\n\nIt is presumed that the V&A soup plate was a trial piece which Burges had in his own collection.  It was acquired by James Sanders of J.W. Walker & Sons for his company collection; identified by Shirley Bury when shown it by Jean Schofield (then acting as his curator) but sold to Thomas Lumley without the information being passed on.  Mr Lumley assumed that it had been designed by J.H. Powell, Pugin's pupil and son-in-law, but on learning that it was a Burges piece generously presented it to the V&A.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Soup plate, silver, Birmingham hallmarks for 1867-68, mark of John Hardman and Company, designed by William Burges for John Patrick Crichton Stuart, 3rd  Marquess of Bute.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Turner, Eric, An Introduction to English Silver from 1660 (V&A Introductions to the Decorative Arts), London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1985.","id":"AUTH402135"},"details":"p.33. ill.","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Proof","id":"THES48870"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"hare","id":"x30063"},{"text":"sword belt","id":"AAT210007"},{"text":"scabbard","id":"AAT37139"},{"text":"trees","id":"AAT132410"},{"text":"bird","id":"x35043"},{"text":"parrot","id":"x36571"},{"text":"moulding","id":"x46876"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"SOUP PLATE\r\nSilver, with an engraved medallion of a startled hare.\r\nBIRMINGHAM; hallmark 1867-8\r\nMaker's mark of John Hardman and Company.\r\nDesigned by William Burges (1827-1881) for John Patrick Crichton Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.\r\nGiven by Thomas Lumley\r\nM.59-1981.\r\n\r\nWilliam Burges designed a set of 24 soup plates for the Marquess of Bute, this was almost certainly a trial plate. 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