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

Plate

1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Lambeth High Street Pottery (manufacturer)
Griffith, William (producer (three-dimensional arts))
Griffith, Abigail (producer (three-dimensional arts))
Place of origin
Lambeth High Street (made)

Oriental landscape with a house and trees within geometric borders in blue. In the middle of the back within the foot-rim is the inscription F x P/1760 in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish, pooling at the rim and a slight crawling of glaze at one place.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
SCRAN
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Oriental landscape and an inscription
Physical description
Oriental landscape with a house and trees within geometric borders in blue. In the middle of the back within the foot-rim is the inscription F x P/1760 in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish, pooling at the rim and a slight crawling of glaze at one place.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22cm
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed '1760' with the initials 'F P'
Credit line
Bequeathed by Prof. F. H. Garner
Subjects depicted
Landscapes (Representations)
Geometric Patterns
Trees
House
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: 612.
Other number
B247. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.86-1965

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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