Plate

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple with the exception of leaves and flower sprays on the border scratched through the powdered pigment and painted yellow and a centre scene of a bird seated in a flowering shrub with a flying insect in yellow, red, blue, green and manganese-purple. The rim is in yellow.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white. Many small white dots in the glaze particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Shape M. (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
Bird, insects and flowers
Physical description
The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple with the exception of leaves and flower sprays on the border scratched through the powdered pigment and painted yellow and a centre scene of a bird seated in a flowering shrub with a flying insect in yellow, red, blue, green and manganese-purple. The rim is in yellow.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white. Many small white dots in the glaze particularly visible on painted areas.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.9cm
Object history
Purchased from Mr L. Gautier, London, 1926.
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
B69. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.1245-1926

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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