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Plate

1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Redcliff Back Pottery (manufacturers)
Frank, Richard (producer (three-dimensional arts))
Edkins, Michael (maker)
Place of origin
Redcliff Back (made)

A Chinese figure in an oriental landscape with a fence, tree, rock, castle and two quails(?) in blue. In the middle of the back is the inscription E/MB/1760 also in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
A Chinese figure in an oriental landscape and an inscription
Physical description
A Chinese figure in an oriental landscape with a fence, tree, rock, castle and two quails(?) in blue. In the middle of the back is the inscription E/MB/1760 also in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed on back; E/M B/ 1760. (Back)
  • E/M B/ 1760.
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology
Object history
W. Edkins, 1859.
Subjects depicted
Landscapes (Representations)
Fences
Tree
Cattle
Birds
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
  • M.P.G. 1871, L.23. M.P.G. 1876, L.20 and Figs: 150 and 151. Handbook M.P.G., 1893, L.20 and Figs: 125 and 126. Owen, p. 329. Rackham and Read, p. 56. Garner, p.26 and Pl: 74.B. W.B. Honey, Old English Porcelain, London, 1948, p. 158, note 2. Lipski and Archer, No: 605.
Other number
B253. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
3125-1901

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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