Plate
ca. 1750 (made)
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| Place of origin |
The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple with the exception of leaves and flower sprays on the border scratched through the powdered pigment and painted yellow and a centre scene of a bird seated in a flowering shrub with a flying insect in yellow, red, blue, green and manganese-purple. The rim is in yellow.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white. Many small white dots in the glaze particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white. Many small white dots in the glaze particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Bird, insects and flowers |
| Physical description | The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple with the exception of leaves and flower sprays on the border scratched through the powdered pigment and painted yellow and a centre scene of a bird seated in a flowering shrub with a flying insect in yellow, red, blue, green and manganese-purple. The rim is in yellow. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white. Many small white dots in the glaze particularly visible on painted areas. Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Object history | Purchased from Mr L. Gautier, London, 1926. |
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| 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 | B69. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.1245-1926 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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