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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

Plate

ca. 1750-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, octagonal with hardly any foot-rim. Buff earthenware with bluish white tin glaze. It is painted in blue in the middle, a Chinese lady with her attendant, who holds a parasol over her, beside a table with vases in a fenced garden. On the rim, small Chinese figures in four quatrefoil panels reserved amongst diaper patterns. The back has simple herbal sprigs on the underside.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration
Brief description
Delftware. Plate, tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration, England, ca. 1750-1760.
Physical description
Plate, octagonal with hardly any foot-rim. Buff earthenware with bluish white tin glaze. It is painted in blue in the middle, a Chinese lady with her attendant, who holds a parasol over her, beside a table with vases in a fenced garden. On the rim, small Chinese figures in four quatrefoil panels reserved amongst diaper patterns. The back has simple herbal sprigs on the underside.
Dimensions
  • Width: 20.7cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Lady Schreiber, No: 826. Rackham Schreiber, Pl: 4. Garner, p.17, Pl: 57.A.
Other numbers
  • B223. - Delftware (1997) cat. no.
  • Sch. II 10 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:826-1885

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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