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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Dish

1800-1850 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of grey earthenware covered with white and brown slips with combed decoration under a clear glaze. Oblong with rounded corners and indented edge. The combing is in parallel feather-like bands.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware with slip decoration
Brief description
Dish, earthenware with combed slip decoration. English, made in Sunderland, 1800-1850
Physical description
Dish of grey earthenware covered with white and brown slips with combed decoration under a clear glaze. Oblong with rounded corners and indented edge. The combing is in parallel feather-like bands.
Dimensions
  • Taken from register length: 32.7cm
  • Taken from register width: 27.3in
Marks and inscriptions
'SCOTTS SUPERIOR FIREPROOF SUNDERLAND' (impressed)
Gallery label
Dish Made in Sunderland, 1800-50 Mark: "SCOTTS SUPERIOR FIREPROOF SUNDERLAND", impressed Slipware C.127-1909 Given by Mr Sydney Vacher(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Given by Sydney Vacher
Object history
Purchased by the donor at Sotheby's, January 1909.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard and Herbert Read, English Pottery, 1924, p. 29.
Collection
Accession number
C.127-1909

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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