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

Octagonal Plate

ca. 1748 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The front is covered with powdered blue with the exception of five reserved panels with circular flower heads and leaves and flower sprays scratched through the powdered pigment and a centre scene of a Chinese figure with hillock, flowers, fence and flying insect in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greyish, pooling on the back.
Shape: Shape M. (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
Chinese figure in a landscape
Physical description
The front is covered with powdered blue with the exception of five reserved panels with circular flower heads and leaves and flower sprays scratched through the powdered pigment and a centre scene of a Chinese figure with hillock, flowers, fence and flying insect in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greyish, pooling on the back.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.8cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Prof. F. H. Garner
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
B65. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.73-1965

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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