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

Dish

ca. 1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A bird, flowering shrub and bamboos with sgraffito decoration on some of the leaves in yellow, red, blue and manganese-purple. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white. No apparent stilt or peg-marks. The red pigment has bubbled here and there.
Shape: Shape D. (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
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, Bristol, ca. 1760-1770
Physical description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A bird, flowering shrub and bamboos with sgraffito decoration on some of the leaves in yellow, red, blue and manganese-purple. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white. No apparent stilt or peg-marks. The red pigment has bubbled here and there.
Shape: Shape D. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 33.3cm
Credit line
Mellor Bequest
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
  • R.J. Charleston and D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Masterpieces of Western Ceramic Art: English and Dutch Ceramics, Vol. VII. Tokyo, 1979, Pl: 17.
Other number
B170. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.89-1947

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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