Plate
ca. 1748 (made)
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The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple with the exception of nine reserved panels with alternating flower sprays and carnations on the border and a centre scene of a landscape with a man leaning on a rock under a tree with a steeple-like monument rising above two arched openings in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greyish white dribbling and pooling on the back.
Shape: Shape M with flatter well and more upturned flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Greyish white dribbling and pooling on the back.
Shape: Shape M with flatter well and more upturned flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Tin-glazed earthenware painted in manganese and blue with a scene of a man standing in a landscape. England, probably Bristol but possibly Wincanton, about 1748 |
| Physical description | The front is covered with powdered manganese-purple with the exception of nine reserved panels with alternating flower sprays and carnations on the border and a centre scene of a landscape with a man leaning on a rock under a tree with a steeple-like monument rising above two arched openings in blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white dribbling and pooling on the back. Shape: Shape M with flatter well and more upturned flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Object history | Purchased from Mr A.F. Allbrook, South Kensington, 1950. |
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| 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 | B66. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.415-1950 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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