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

Plate

ca. 1735-1745 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An exotic standing figure with fence, shrubs, flying insects and geometric decoration some of which is applied with a cut sponge in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white, pooling on the underside.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
A figure in a landscape and geometric
Physical description
An exotic standing figure with fence, shrubs, flying insects and geometric decoration some of which is applied with a cut sponge in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white, pooling on the underside.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.2cm
Object history
Professor F.H. Garner. Sothebys. 6:10:1964. Lot 42. Purchased from Mr R.J. Charleston, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1965.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8
Other number
B203. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.2-1965

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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