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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Artist/Maker	Redcliff Back Pottery (manufacturer) Frank, Richard (producer)
Place of origin	Bristol (made)

The painting of delftware in Bristol exceeded the standards found at London or Liverpool. It is even possible to attribute certain painting styles to known artists. But all the Bristol factories had gone out of business by the end of the 1700s. This was due to the invention of Wedgwood's creamware in the 1760s.

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Categories	Delftware Ceramics
Object type	Plate
Materials and techniques	Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue Earthenware Tin Glaze Glazed Painted
Brief description	Plate, decorated in blue with coastal landscape, Redcliff Back pottery, England (Bristol), ca. 1760-1770
Physical description	Landscape with rock, houses and trees with Chinese figures fishing and sitting in boats in blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Bluish white, pooling on the back. Shape: Shape N. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions	Diameter: 22cm
Credit line	Bequeathed by Prof. F. H. Garner
Production	Possibly Redcliff Back
Subjects depicted	Landscapes (Representations) Houses Trees Fishermen Boats
Summary	The painting of delftware in Bristol exceeded the standards found at London or Liverpool. It is even possible to attribute certain painting styles to known artists. But all the Bristol factories had gone out of business by the end of the 1700s. This was due to the invention of Wedgwood's creamware in the 1760s.
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 Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X
Other number	B256. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.81-1965

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Record created	January 29, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21297/plate-frank-richard/

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