Not currently on display at the V&A

Plate

ca. 1740-1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Temple Back Pottery (manufacturer)
Cantle, Thomas (producer)
Place of origin
Temple Back (made)

Plate of enamelled buff-coloured tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels, and with a Chinese figure holding a fan seated under a bamboo tree with alternating panels of diaper decoration and bamboo foliage on the flange painted in blue, manganese-purple, green and yellow.
Shape M (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer's Delftware, 1997).


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Earthenware
SCRAN
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Plate of enamelled buff-coloured tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels, made by Thomas Cantle, Temple Back pottery, Temple Back, ca. 1740-1750.
Physical description
Plate of enamelled buff-coloured tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels, and with a Chinese figure holding a fan seated under a bamboo tree with alternating panels of diaper decoration and bamboo foliage on the flange painted in blue, manganese-purple, green and yellow.
Shape M (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer's Delftware, 1997).
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23cm
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Object history
Acquired by the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, before 1871. Transferred, 1901.
Subjects depicted
Figure
Bamboo
Woman
Foliage
Diaper
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. 24.
Other number
B206. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
4060-1901

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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