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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

Dish

ca. 1690-1710 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Geometric decoration in blue, copper green and manganese-purple. Three stilt marks on the front (7.5 cms point to point).
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Dull white at the front. A greyish tin-glaze which has dribbled and pooled over a pale slip covers the entire back. Foot-rim partially wiped clean of glaze. Back and front finely crazed.
Shape: Shape B with wider foot-rim and without a groove at the rim, which is more everted. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Geometric
Physical description
Geometric decoration in blue, copper green and manganese-purple. Three stilt marks on the front (7.5 cms point to point).
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Dull white at the front. A greyish tin-glaze which has dribbled and pooled over a pale slip covers the entire back. Foot-rim partially wiped clean of glaze. Back and front finely crazed.
Shape: Shape B with wider foot-rim and without a groove at the rim, which is more everted. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.4cm
  • Diameter: 26cm
Object history
Purchased from Rev. E.A. Downman, Ilford, Essex, 1920.
Subject 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
  • Downman, Pl: on p.127. B. Rackham, 'The Virtues of English Pottery', E.C.C. Trans, Vol: II, Part 7, 1939, p.106, Pl: XXXVI. Garner, p.10, Pl: 19. Garner and Archer, pp.8, 11, Pl: 14A.
Other number
A49. - Delftware (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.852-1920

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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