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ca. 1720-1730 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Trees, mounds, a schematic Chinese pavilion and a conical rock (or haystack?) in red, green and blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White.
Shape: Handle rounded on the inside, concave on the outside. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours
Brief description
Chinese landscape
Physical description
Trees, mounds, a schematic Chinese pavilion and a conical rock (or haystack?) in red, green and blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White.
Shape: Handle rounded on the inside, concave on the outside. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.1cm
  • Diameter: 10.1cm
Object history
Mr B.W. Guest, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Purchased from Mr T. Jellinek, Kensington, 1983.
Subjects depicted
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
C17. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.230-1983

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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