Night-Light Holder
ca. 1765-1775 (made)
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Night-light holder of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A woman with a basket in a landscape with sponged trees and a ruin with arches in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greeny bluish white, pooling at the base on the outside and slightly crazed. A few pin-holes on the underside. Many small white dots in the glaze, particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Concave underside. There is an almost imperceptible string moulding running around the body at the sill level of the five windows. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greeny bluish white, pooling at the base on the outside and slightly crazed. A few pin-holes on the underside. Many small white dots in the glaze, particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Concave underside. There is an almost imperceptible string moulding running around the body at the sill level of the five windows. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Night-light holder of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, probably by Abigail Griffith, Lambeth High Street pottery, London, ca. 1765-1775 |
| Physical description | Night-light holder of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A woman with a basket in a landscape with sponged trees and a ruin with arches in blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greeny bluish white, pooling at the base on the outside and slightly crazed. A few pin-holes on the underside. Many small white dots in the glaze, particularly visible on painted areas. Shape: Concave underside. There is an almost imperceptible string moulding running around the body at the sill level of the five windows. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Credit line | Mellor Bequest |
| Object history | Mr L. Gautier, London. Mellor Bequest, 1963. |
| Production | London (probably Lambeth High Street, Abigail Griffith) |
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| 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 | G5. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.38-1963 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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