Bowl
ca. 1765-1775 (made)
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Punch bowl of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. The interior has a flower spray and geometric border in blue. The exterior has flowers, leaves, a kingfisher-like bird and a flying insect in yellow, red, green and blue. Sgraffito decoration on some of the leaves. The rim is in dull yellow. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greenish white with noticeably turquoise areas, inclined to pool and finely crazed. Thin, small peg-mark on the rim.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Punch bowl of tin-glazed earthenware, made by A. Griffith, Lambeth High Street pottery, London, ca. 1765-1775 |
| Physical description | Punch bowl of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. The interior has a flower spray and geometric border in blue. The exterior has flowers, leaves, a kingfisher-like bird and a flying insect in yellow, red, green and blue. Sgraffito decoration on some of the leaves. The rim is in dull yellow. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greenish white with noticeably turquoise areas, inclined to pool and finely crazed. Thin, small peg-mark on the rim. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Arthur Hurst |
| Object history | W.F. Greenwood and Sons Ltd., York and Harrogate. Arthur Hurst Bequest, 1940. |
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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 | F41. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
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| Accession number | C.83-1940 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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