Bowl
ca. 1770-1785 (made)
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Bowl of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. The interior has rocks and shrubs rising out of water and a border with sgraffito decoration in blue. The exterior has similar scenes and hillocks with trees, rocks, a house and a pagoda in yellow, red, green and blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white, inclined to pool and finely crazed. A single peg-mark on the rim.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white, inclined to pool and finely crazed. A single peg-mark on the rim.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Delftware bowl of tin-glazed earthenware, painted by Abigail Griffith, Lambeth High Street pottery, London, ca. 1770-1785. |
| Physical description | Bowl of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. The interior has rocks and shrubs rising out of water and a border with sgraffito decoration in blue. The exterior has similar scenes and hillocks with trees, rocks, a house and a pagoda in yellow, red, green and blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white, inclined to pool and finely crazed. A single peg-mark on the rim. |
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| Credit line | Mellor Bequest |
| Object history | Mellor Bequest, 1963. |
| Production | Produced by Abigail Griffith before or during her partnership with Thomas Morgan. |
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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 | F45. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.69-1963 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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