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

Plate

1737 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bristol (made)

A wreath enclosing the inscription God Save/ King George/ 1737 in red, yellow, green and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white, dribbling and pooling front and back. Some marks on the underside in an equilateral triangle suggest that the plate stood on a tripod after glazing but before firing as it has three peg-marks at the rim.
Shape: Shape H. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
SCRAN
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
A wreath and an inscription
Physical description
A wreath enclosing the inscription God Save/ King George/ 1737 in red, yellow, green and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greenish white, dribbling and pooling front and back. Some marks on the underside in an equilateral triangle suggest that the plate stood on a tripod after glazing but before firing as it has three peg-marks at the rim.
Shape: Shape H. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 21.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on front; God Save/ King George/ 1737.
Credit line
Alfred Williams Hearn Bequest
Subject depicted
Wreath
Bibliographic references
  • 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
  • Lipski and Archer, No: 416.
Other number
B10. - Delftware (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.83-1931

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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