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Bowl

1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Lambeth High Street Pottery (manufacturer)
Griffith, William (producer)
Place of origin
Lambeth High Street (made)

The interior has a band of formal and foliate decoration in bianco-sopra-bianco and the inscription WENMAN: & DASHWOOD:/FOR: EVER./1755. The exterior has pavilions, a hillock, trees and shrubs and a Chinese figure offering a tea-pot (?) to another figure holding a receptacle in blue and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Lavender. Many small white dots in the glaze of the interior, particularly visible on painted areas. There appear to be two peg-marks on the rim.

Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Chinese figures and pavilions in an oriental landscape and an inscription, made in Lambeth, ca 1750
Physical description
The interior has a band of formal and foliate decoration in bianco-sopra-bianco and the inscription WENMAN: & DASHWOOD:/FOR: EVER./1755. The exterior has pavilions, a hillock, trees and shrubs and a Chinese figure offering a tea-pot (?) to another figure holding a receptacle in blue and manganese-purple.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Lavender. Many small white dots in the glaze of the interior, particularly visible on painted areas. There appear to be two peg-marks on the rim.
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.3cm
  • Diameter: 22.7cm
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed on interior: WENMAN: & : DASHWOOD:/FOR : EVER./1755.
Credit line
Given by Mr H. A. Bowler
Subjects depicted
Foliation
Pavilions
Trees
Shrubs
Figures (Representations)
Teapot
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
  • Rackham and Read, p.58. Lipski and Archer, No: 1154.
Other number
B80. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.381-1922

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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