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

Inkwell

1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tin-glazed earthenware inkwell of drum-shaped, painted in polychrome colours. Decorated with sgraffito patterns derived from lacework (Russian point) and small fruits, which are from Alcora. Indecipherable inscription.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted and sgraffito decoration
Brief description
Inkwell, tin-glazed earthenware with painted and sgraffito decoration, made in Talavera or Puente del Arzobispo, Spain, 1760-1770.
Physical description
Tin-glazed earthenware inkwell of drum-shaped, painted in polychrome colours. Decorated with sgraffito patterns derived from lacework (Russian point) and small fruits, which are from Alcora. Indecipherable inscription.
Dimensions
  • Width: 19.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
[Indecipherable inscription]
Credit line
Supported by the Friends of the V&A
Object history
Featured in Friends News, Spring 1997.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Pleguezuelo, Alfonso (ed): Lozas y Azulejos: de la coleccion Carranza, vol: I, Castilla-La Mancha, 2002, p. 422, 426, Tv 124, 127
  • Ray, Anthony. Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 : with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum London, V&A Publications, 2000 349
Collection
Accession number
C.112-1995

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Record createdMarch 16, 1999
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