Waster
ca. 1680 (made)
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A dark manganese-purple shoe with a yellow and white buckle (or rosette?), white stockings with three vertical stripes of blue decoration up the sides and the back, standing on a pale turquoise-green base with some dark blue areas at the edge. A hole in the upper part contains white glaze.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White. Crawling on side of shoe.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White. Crawling on side of shoe.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Naturalistic waster of the foot of a figure, tin-glazed earthenware, probably Southwark, London, c.1680 |
| Physical description | A dark manganese-purple shoe with a yellow and white buckle (or rosette?), white stockings with three vertical stripes of blue decoration up the sides and the back, standing on a pale turquoise-green base with some dark blue areas at the edge. A hole in the upper part contains white glaze. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: White. Crawling on side of shoe. |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss Julia Webb |
| Object history | Found at Queenhithe, on the foreshore, on the north bank of the Thames upstream from Southwark Bridge |
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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 | L2. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.37-1992 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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