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

Artist/Maker	Lambeth High Street Pottery (manufacturer) Griffith, Abigail (producer) Griffith, William (producer)
Place of origin	Lambeth High Street (made)

The interior has a band of geometric decoration in bianco-sopra-bianco and the inscription Success/ To the British/ Arms and a paraph below. The exterior has two Chinese figures, a rock, house, bamboos and trees with two ships in an oriental coastal landscape in yellow, blue, green and manganese-purple. The rim is in yellowish-brown.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Lavender.

Object details

Categories	Delftware Ceramics Propaganda
Object type	Bowl
Materials and techniques	Tin-glazed earthenware, painted Tin Glaze Earthenware Glazed Painted
Brief description	Chinese figures, a house and ships in an oriental landscape and an inscription
Physical description	The interior has a band of geometric decoration in bianco-sopra-bianco and the inscription Success/ To the British/ Arms and a paraph below. The exterior has two Chinese figures, a rock, house, bamboos and trees with two ships in an oriental coastal landscape in yellow, blue, green and manganese-purple. The rim is in yellowish-brown. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Lavender.
Dimensions	Height: 9.7cm Diameter: 23cm
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed Success/ To the British/ Arms.
Object history	Mrs D. Mundy. Sothebys. 6:2:1948. Lot 43. Purchased from Filkins and Co., South Kensington, 1948.
Subjects depicted	Geometric Patterns House Trees Ships Bamboo Landscapes (Representations)
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 R.G. Mundy, English Delft Pottery, London, 1928, Pl: XXVI1.
Other number	B82. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.13-1948

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Record created	January 29, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21032/bowl-griffith-abigail/

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