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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Bowl

1749 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Punch bowl of enamelled buff coloured tin glazed earthenware painted with enamels. The interior has flowering branches with leaves and a caterpillar in red, yellow, green and blue. One leaf has sgraffito decoration. The exterior has the arms of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights: gules a chevron between three wheels or, on a chief argent an axe fessewise proper the handle to the sinister with supporters on either side a horse rampant and the motto 'GOD GRANT UNITY'. Crest: on a wreath of the colours a dexter arm embowed, vested gules cuffed argent, holding in the hand proper a mallet or, repeated four times. All the decoration is in red, yellow, green and blue. The rim is brownish red. Floral decoration and inside is a blossoming plum tree.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted with enamels
Brief description
Delftware punch bowl of tin glazed earthenware painted with enamels with the arms of the Wheelwrights' Company, possibly Lambeth, 1749.
Physical description
Punch bowl of enamelled buff coloured tin glazed earthenware painted with enamels. The interior has flowering branches with leaves and a caterpillar in red, yellow, green and blue. One leaf has sgraffito decoration. The exterior has the arms of the Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights: gules a chevron between three wheels or, on a chief argent an axe fessewise proper the handle to the sinister with supporters on either side a horse rampant and the motto 'GOD GRANT UNITY'. Crest: on a wreath of the colours a dexter arm embowed, vested gules cuffed argent, holding in the hand proper a mallet or, repeated four times. All the decoration is in red, yellow, green and blue. The rim is brownish red. Floral decoration and inside is a blossoming plum tree.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.5cm
  • Diameter: 30.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'W / R H / 1749' (Underside of base; painted)
  • 'GOD GRANT UNITY' (Repeated four times on the arms)
Credit line
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Object history
Acquired by the Museum of Practical Geology before 1871. Transferred 1901.
Subjects depicted
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 and 1876, S.13. Lipski and Archer, No: 1121.
Other number
F28. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
3619-1901

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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