Plate
ca. 1785 (made)
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Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A balloon in the sky above a landscape with fence, trees and a house within a border of leaf sprays, classical festoons and a feathered edge in blue, bluish green and manganese-purple. The rim is in manganese-purple. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greenish white, pooling on the back and finely crazed.
Shape: Shape M with more upturned flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Shape: Shape M with more upturned flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, made by Thomas Morgan and Abigail Griffith, Lambeth High Street pottery, London, ca. 1785 or a little later. |
| Physical description | Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A balloon in the sky above a landscape with fence, trees and a house within a border of leaf sprays, classical festoons and a feathered edge in blue, bluish green and manganese-purple. The rim is in manganese-purple. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greenish white, pooling on the back and finely crazed. Shape: Shape M with more upturned flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss D. Mander, London |
| Production | ca. 1785 or a little later |
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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 | B15. - Delftware (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.46-1961 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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