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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Vase

ca. 1750-1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A figure in a sampan-like boat with swimming birds, a fence, trees and houses with alternating grapes and leaves around the mouth in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Condition: Mouth much restored.
Glaze: Bluish white pooling at the base. Many small white dots in the glaze, particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Slightly concave underside. (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
Vase, with a figure in a boat in a coastal landscape, Liverpool, about 1750-60
Physical description
A figure in a sampan-like boat with swimming birds, a fence, trees and houses with alternating grapes and leaves around the mouth in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Condition: Mouth much restored.
Glaze: Bluish white pooling at the base. Many small white dots in the glaze, particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Slightly concave underside. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 12.3cm
  • Diameter: 7.8cm
Credit line
Mellor Bequest
Object history
Mellor Bequest, 1963.
Associated object
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
I19. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.90-1963

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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