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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)

Chinese landscape with trees, rocks, a house and two Chinese figures crossing a bridge in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish and thick and lumpy on the back.
Shape: Shape M with steeper more rounded flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

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Categories	Delftware Ceramics
Object type	Plate
Materials and techniques	Tin-glazed earthenware, painted Earthenware Tin Glaze Glazed Painted
Brief description	Oriental coastal landscape
Physical description	Chinese landscape with trees, rocks, a house and two Chinese figures crossing a bridge in blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish and thick and lumpy on the back. Shape: Shape M with steeper more rounded flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions	Diameter: 22.7cm
Credit line	Mellor Bequest
Object history	Exhibited: Rijksmuseum, No: 160.
Subjects depicted	Trees House Figures Bridge
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	B221. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.95-1947

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Record created	January 29, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21228/plate-griffith-abigail/

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