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

Plate

1676 (made)
Artist/Maker
Pickleherring Pottery (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Pickleherring (made)

Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A man seated on a horse holding a spear with two running hounds chasing a stag within a border of formal flowers and the inscription S/16 IA 76 in blue, indigo, yellow, turquoise green and manganese-purple. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white.
Shape: Shape G. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Earthenware
SCRAN
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, probably Pickleherring Pottery, Pickleherring, 1676
Physical description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A man seated on a horse holding a spear with two running hounds chasing a stag within a border of formal flowers and the inscription S/16 IA 76 in blue, indigo, yellow, turquoise green and manganese-purple. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white.
Shape: Shape G. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22cm
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed 16 S/I A 76.
Credit line
Presented in memory of Capt. D. H. C. Cooper RN, by members of his family
Object history
Attfield family, Windlesham, c.1900. Mrs H. Caldwell.
Subjects depicted
Figure
Dogs
Stag
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
  • Lipski and Archer, No: 139.A. Michael Archer, 'Acquisitions in The Department of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1968-70); III Seventeenth-century delftware', Burlington, June, 1971, p.333. Pl: 53.
Other number
B190. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.86-1969

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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