Water Bottle

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

Water bottle of earthenware, painted. Landscape with rock, houses and trees with Chinese figures fishing and sitting in a boat on the sea in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white.
Shape: Concave underside. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Water bottle, earthenware, painted, probably produced by Richard Frank, probably at Redcliff Back Pottery, Bristol, ca. 1760-1770
Physical description
Water bottle of earthenware, painted. Landscape with rock, houses and trees with Chinese figures fishing and sitting in a boat on the sea in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white.
Shape: Concave underside. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.2cm
  • Diameter: 12.6cm
Object history
Mr L.L. Lipski, London. Sothebys. 10:3:1981. Lot 135. Purchased from Mr J. Horne, Kensington, 1981.
Subjects depicted
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
E20. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.23-1981

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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