Dish

ca. 1776 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A Chinese figure seated in an oriental landscape within two bands of geometric decoration in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greeny bluish, lumpy and pooling on the back. On one place on the edge and on part of the well the glaze has crawled. A chip on the rim seems to show a pale slip has been used under the glaze. Two peg-marks on the rim and a chip where another might have been.
Shape: Shape N with rounder well and flatter flange. (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 figure seated in an oriental landscape
Physical description
A Chinese figure seated in an oriental landscape within two bands of geometric decoration in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greeny bluish, lumpy and pooling on the back. On one place on the edge and on part of the well the glaze has crawled. A chip on the rim seems to show a pale slip has been used under the glaze. Two peg-marks on the rim and a chip where another might have been.
Shape: Shape N with rounder well and flatter flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 34.5cm
Credit line
Given by Mrs C. Hemming
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
B269. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.336-1930

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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