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

Dish

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

Dish. A rock with apertures and a flowering shrub with a border of floral sprays in blue, red, green, yellow and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white and lumpy with some crazing. The glaze has crawled in places, particularly 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
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, probably Lambeth, ca. 1760.
Physical description
Dish. A rock with apertures and a flowering shrub with a border of floral sprays in blue, red, green, yellow and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white and lumpy with some crazing. The glaze has crawled in places, particularly on the back.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 30.3cm
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Subject 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
B151. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.538-1919

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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