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Plate

ca. 1680-1690 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Chinese figure seated in an Oriental landscape in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greyish white, pooling on the back at the rim, with many pin-holes and finely crazed.
Shape: Shape J. (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
Plate with a depiction of a chinese figure in an oriental landscape
Physical description
Chinese figure seated in an Oriental landscape in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greyish white, pooling on the back at the rim, with many pin-holes and finely crazed.
Shape: Shape J. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22cm
Diameter: D. 22 cms (8 5/8 ins)
Credit line
Given by Messrs Doulton
Object history
Found under Tunnel Kiln, Lambeth, March 1919 (written on an old label on the underside). Doulton and Co. Ltd. Works Museum, Lambeth. Given by Messrs Doulton, 1952.
Subjects 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
B191. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.21-1952

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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