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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

Bowl

ca. 1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Circular bowl of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels and moulded, and with a slightly projecting rim, and painted outside with Chinese figures, vases, buildings and rocks, two birds and a butterfly, and inside, at the bottom, with a pink and yellow butterfly in a medallion bordered with pink and green rays, and at the edge is a narrow border of flowers in panels reserved on pink and green diapers, and between them is a moth, a caterpillar and a dragonfly.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels and moulded
Brief description
Circular bowl of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels and moulded, and with a slightly projecting rim, maker unknown, made in Staffordshire, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Circular bowl of salt-glazed stoneware painted with enamels and moulded, and with a slightly projecting rim, and painted outside with Chinese figures, vases, buildings and rocks, two birds and a butterfly, and inside, at the bottom, with a pink and yellow butterfly in a medallion bordered with pink and green rays, and at the edge is a narrow border of flowers in panels reserved on pink and green diapers, and between them is a moth, a caterpillar and a dragonfly.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.8cm
  • Diameter: 26.9cm
Style
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 193 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:879-1885

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Record createdFebruary 26, 2009
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