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Dish

1733 (made)
Artist/Maker
Limekiln Lane Pottery (The Lower Pot-House) (manufacturer)
Weaver, John (producer)
Weaver, Hester (producer (three-dimensional arts))
Place of origin
Bristol (made)

A Chinese figure standing in front of a fence in a landscape with a border of floral and oriental classic scroll motifs, in blue, red, green and yellow. On the lower edge of the border is the inscription S D/1733. The back has alternating Q and // motifs on the well in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White with a few pin-holes in the back.
Shape: Shape D with steeper flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Chinese figure standing in a landscape and an inscription
Physical description
A Chinese figure standing in front of a fence in a landscape with a border of floral and oriental classic scroll motifs, in blue, red, green and yellow. On the lower edge of the border is the inscription S D/1733. The back has alternating Q and // motifs on the well in blue.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White with a few pin-holes in the back.
Shape: Shape D with steeper flange. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 33.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed: see below (Back)
  • Inscribed on back: see below.
Object history
Mr B.W. Guest, Ross-on Wye, Herefordshre. Purchased from Mr T. Jellinek, Kensington, 1983.
Subjects depicted
Landscape
Figure
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: 377.
Other number
B201. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.231-1983

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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