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

Plate

ca. 1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Buff earthenware plate with scalloped rim, covered with a pale greyish-blue enamel. Painted in the middle with a pseudo-Chinese landscape with figures fishing and sitting in a boat in blue. On the rim decorated with bianco-sopra-bianco flowers, pine cones and leaves in opaque white.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted and bianco-sopra-bianco decoration
Brief description
Delftware. Plate, tin-glazed earthenware with painted and bianco-sopra-bianco decoration, probably made by Richard Frank at Redcliff Back pottery, England, ca. 1760-1770.
Physical description
Buff earthenware plate with scalloped rim, covered with a pale greyish-blue enamel. Painted in the middle with a pseudo-Chinese landscape with figures fishing and sitting in a boat in blue. On the rim decorated with bianco-sopra-bianco flowers, pine cones and leaves in opaque white.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.5cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Production
Probably made by Richard Frank at Redcliff Back pottery.
Subjects depicted
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
  • Lady Schreiber, No: 827. Rackham Schreiber, Pl: 7. Garner and Archer, Pl: 89.A.
Other numbers
  • B92. - Delftware (1997) cat. no.
  • Sch. II 11 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:827-1885

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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