Plate

1765 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Chinese landscape painted in blue. Sgraffito decoration around the rim. Inscribed R/R I/1765 in the middle of the back.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish, pooling on the back.
Shape: Shape M. (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
Chinese landscape and an inscription
Physical description
Chinese landscape painted in blue. Sgraffito decoration around the rim. Inscribed R/R I/1765 in the middle of the back.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish, pooling on the back.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed R/R I/ 1765. (Back)
  • R/R I/ 1765.
Object history
Purchased from the Bandinel Collection, 1853.
Subject 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
  • Lipski and Archer, No: 641.
Other number
B259. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
2979-1853

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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