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

Sugar Pot

ca. 1720-1730 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sugar pot of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. Three vases of flowers alternating with three Chinese figures bending forwards in blue, red, green and yellow. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white and much crazed.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Sugar pot of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, made by W. Chilwell I, Vauxhall pottery, London, ca. 1720-1730.
Physical description
Sugar pot of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. Three vases of flowers alternating with three Chinese figures bending forwards in blue, red, green and yellow. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white and much crazed.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.3cm
  • Diameter: 11.3cm
Height: Ht. 8.3 cms (3 1/4 ins).() Diameter: D. 11.3 cms (4 7/16 ins)
Credit line
Mellor Bequest
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
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
Other number
H15. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.66-1963

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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