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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

Bowl

1758 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Liverpool (made)

The interior has flowers and leaves and the inscription The Geft of the/ Honourable Langam Booth/ Esqr: to Lord Balmerino/ 1758. The exterior is painted with flowers and leaves. All the decoration is in red, yellow, green, blue and black (manganese-purple?).
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White. Two possible peg-marks on the rim.


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Earthenware
SCRAN
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Delftware bowl, painted decoration of flowers and an inscription, probably Liverpool, 1758.
Physical description
The interior has flowers and leaves and the inscription The Geft of the/ Honourable Langam Booth/ Esqr: to Lord Balmerino/ 1758. The exterior is painted with flowers and leaves. All the decoration is in red, yellow, green, blue and black (manganese-purple?).
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White. Two possible peg-marks on the rim.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10cm
  • Diameter: 23.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'The Geft of the/ Honourable Langam Booth/ Esqr: to Lord Balmerino/ 1758.' (Decoration; interior base.; painted)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Prof. F. H. Garner
Object history
Mr L. Gautier, London. Mrs Radford, London. Sothebys. 3:11:1943. Lot 30 Professor F.H. Garner Bequest, 1965.
Subject depicted
Floral Patterns
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: 1169.
Other number
F31. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.105-1965

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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