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Bowl
Griffith, William - Enlarge image
Bowl
- Place of origin:
Lambeth High Street, England (probably, made)
- Date:
1755 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Griffith, William (probably, producer)
Lambeth High Street pottery (probably, manufacturer) - Materials and Techniques:
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
- Credit Line:
Given by Mr H. A. Bowler
- Museum number:
C.381-1922
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Britain, room 138, case 4, shelf 3
Physical description
The interior has a band of formal and foliate decoration in bianco-sopra-bianco and the inscription WENMAN: & DASHWOOD:/FOR: EVER./1755. The exterior has pavilions, a hillock, trees and shrubs and a Chinese figure offering a tea-pot (?) to another figure holding a receptacle in blue and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Lavender. Many small white dots in the glaze of the interior, particularly visible on painted areas. There appear to be two peg-marks on the rim.
Place of Origin
Lambeth High Street, England (probably, made)
Date
1755 (made)
Artist/maker
Griffith, William (probably, producer)
Lambeth High Street pottery (probably, manufacturer)
Materials and Techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on interior: WENMAN: & : DASHWOOD:/FOR : EVER./1755.
Dimensions
Height: 10.3 cm, Diameter: 22.7 cm
Descriptive line
Chinese figures and pavilions in an oriental landscape and an inscription, made in Lambeth, ca 1750
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
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
Rackham and Read, p.58. Lipski and Archer, No: 1154.
Materials
Earthenware; Tin glaze
Techniques
Painted; Glazed
Subjects depicted
Trees; Figures (representations); Foliation; Pavilions; Shrubs; Teapot
Categories
Ceramics; Delftware
Collection code
CER
