Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

1885-1900 (decorated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Factory made round mottled buff stoneware bowl painted with late medieval style sailing ship with blue and turquoise sails, before which swim a shoal of fish, on purple lustre ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, painted in on-glaze enamel colours and purple lustre
Brief description
Round buff stoneware bowl with blue sailing ship on purple lustre ground, and fish in foreground, decorated by John Pearson, England, about 1885-1900
Physical description
Factory made round mottled buff stoneware bowl painted with late medieval style sailing ship with blue and turquoise sails, before which swim a shoal of fish, on purple lustre ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7cm
  • Diameter: 25.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Interlaced 'JP' monogram and geometrical shape (Decorator's mark)
  • 'ALBION / GRANITE / LEADLESS / STONEWARE', printed (maker's mark)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss Cynthia Gabrielle Dunn
Production
The pattern designed and painted by John Pearson using a blank from an unidentified factory.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.7-1999

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2003
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