Not on display

Teabowl

1930 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Teabowl of porcelain or porcellaneous stoneware, with painted floral and banded decoration in cobalt and iron pigments.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, painted in blue and brown
Brief description
Teabowl, porcelain, made by William Staite Murray as gift to Bernard Rackham, 1930
Physical description
Teabowl of porcelain or porcellaneous stoneware, with painted floral and banded decoration in cobalt and iron pigments.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.0cm
  • Diameter: 8.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Bernard Rackham his Tea Bowl - 1930', incised
  • 'M' in a pentagon, impressed (Mark of William Staite Murray)
Credit line
Given by Elizabeth Rackham
Object history
Made as a gift for Bernard Rackham, Keeper of Ceramics at the V&A. The bowl passed to Rackham's son, Harold, and then to his wife, Elizabeth, Bernard's daughter-in-law.
Production
Made as a gift for Bernard Rackham.
Association
Collection
Accession number
C.140-2012

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Record createdJanuary 31, 2013
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