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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

1760 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

The interior has a band of floral decoration and is inscribed: A Health/to to his Majesty/King George the 2nd,/to the King of Prussia/& to the royal Brunswick race/To the Genlls, & Admiral's/And to all Worthys./P.Ferdinand & P. Henry. The exterior has a peony-like flower, rocks, a fence with a Chinese fret, further flowers and leaves with sgraffito decoration on some of the leaves. The underside is inscribed I. Clark/1760 within the foot-rim. All the decoration is in blue. The rim is in greenish-blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Delftware bowl, painted decoration of flowers, fence, rocks and an inscription, London, probably William Griffith, Lambeth High Street, 1760.
Physical description
The interior has a band of floral decoration and is inscribed: A Health/to to his Majesty/King George the 2nd,/to the King of Prussia/& to the royal Brunswick race/To the Genlls, & Admiral's/And to all Worthys./P.Ferdinand & P. Henry. The exterior has a peony-like flower, rocks, a fence with a Chinese fret, further flowers and leaves with sgraffito decoration on some of the leaves. The underside is inscribed I. Clark/1760 within the foot-rim. All the decoration is in blue. The rim is in greenish-blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 9.3cm
  • Diameter: 22.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'A Health/to to his Majesty/King George the 2nd,/to the King of Prussia/& to the royal Brunswick race/To the Genlls, & Admiral's/And to all Worthys./P.Ferdinand & P. Henry.' (Decoration; interior base; painted)
  • 'I. Clark/1760' (on base; painted)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Radford
Object history
Given by Mrs Radford, Hampstead, 1923.
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
  • Lipski and Archer, No: 1176.
Other number
F32. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.15-1923

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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