Cistern
ca. 1750-1755 (made)
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Earthenware cistern, painted with three landscape scenes; the largest has three figures with a horse and a fountain with a statue of Neptune with crown and trident; the two smaller have respectively a house with two figures fishing from a bridge and two figures pointing towards four ships at sea. All the decoration is in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White, very uneven, with bluish pools and dribbles and areas on the underside and near the mouth unglazed.
Shape: The top edge of the back at the mouth is unglazed biscuit. The glaze stops abruptly showing that the back once continued higher and was subsequently broken off. The back is flat without a moulding. The whole front is press-moulded with a cockle-shell above the f (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) auce hole. Deeply concave on the underside.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White, very uneven, with bluish pools and dribbles and areas on the underside and near the mouth unglazed.
Shape: The top edge of the back at the mouth is unglazed biscuit. The glaze stops abruptly showing that the back once continued higher and was subsequently broken off. The back is flat without a moulding. The whole front is press-moulded with a cockle-shell above the f (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) auce hole. Deeply concave on the underside.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Earthenware cistern, painted, produced by David Davies or Henry Delamain, Dublin, ca. 1750-1755. |
| Physical description | Earthenware cistern, painted with three landscape scenes; the largest has three figures with a horse and a fountain with a statue of Neptune with crown and trident; the two smaller have respectively a house with two figures fishing from a bridge and two figures pointing towards four ships at sea. All the decoration is in blue. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: White, very uneven, with bluish pools and dribbles and areas on the underside and near the mouth unglazed. Shape: The top edge of the back at the mouth is unglazed biscuit. The glaze stops abruptly showing that the back once continued higher and was subsequently broken off. The back is flat without a moulding. The whole front is press-moulded with a cockle-shell above the f (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) auce hole. Deeply concave on the underside. |
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| Object history | Mr L.L. Lipski, London. Sothebys. 10:3:1981. Lot 216. Purchased from Mr J. Horne, Kensington, 1981. Exhibited: 'Irish Delftware', Castletown House, 1971, No: 12. |
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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 | E23. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.24-1981 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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