Tile
1750-1775 (made)
| Place of origin |
Decoration: Chinoiserie designs. Blue, red, green, yellow and manganese-purple. The corners in blue and red.
Body: Buff, fine-grained.
Glaze: Traces of glaze on the back.
Surface: Flat.
Body: Buff, fine-grained.
Glaze: Traces of glaze on the back.
Surface: Flat.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Tile, enamelled earthenware, depicting a Chinese figure, arms held together, with a quarter of a flower to each corner, Liverpool, 18th Century |
| Physical description | Decoration: Chinoiserie designs. Blue, red, green, yellow and manganese-purple. The corners in blue and red. Body: Buff, fine-grained. Glaze: Traces of glaze on the back. Surface: Flat. |
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| Object history | This tile was purchased in November 1892, when the South Kensington Museum bought more than 500 tiles of different types from Mrs Elizabeth Edkins of 12 Charlotte Street, Bristol, for £125.0s.0d Inventory nrs 920 to 1435-1892 |
| Bibliographic references |
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| Other number | N.361 - <U>Delftware</U> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 935C-1892 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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