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

Plate

1748 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bristol (made)

Plate, buff earthenware with bluish white tin glaze. It is painted in blue with a standing Chinese lady in a garden with two child attendants, one of whom holds an umbrella over her head. On the rim, Chinese peonies within a narrow diaper border. On the underside alternating crosses and pairs of strokes. Inscribed "T I E" and the date 1748.


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Earthenware
SCRAN
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Cobalt Blue
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Delftware. Plate, tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration, England, 1748.
Physical description
Plate, buff earthenware with bluish white tin glaze. It is painted in blue with a standing Chinese lady in a garden with two child attendants, one of whom holds an umbrella over her head. On the rim, Chinese peonies within a narrow diaper border. On the underside alternating crosses and pairs of strokes. Inscribed "T I E" and the date 1748.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed T/I E/ 1748. (Back)
  • alternating 11 and X motifs in blue
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Subjects depicted
Figures (Representations)
Garden
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: 824. Hodgkin, No: 456. Lipski and Archer, No: 523.A.
Other numbers
  • B212. - Delftware (1997) cat. no.
  • Sch. II 8 - Schreiber number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
414:824-1885

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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