Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Plate

ca. 1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A coastal landscape with a tall rock, buildings, a boat and two Chinese figures in yellow, blue and manganese-purple within a border of bianco-sopra-bianco formalised leaves and geometric ornament.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white and lumpy on the back.
Shape: Shape L with press-moulded fluted border and scalloped rim. (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
Plate with a depiction of an oriental coastal landscape
Physical description
A coastal landscape with a tall rock, buildings, a boat and two Chinese figures in yellow, blue and manganese-purple within a border of bianco-sopra-bianco formalised leaves and geometric ornament.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: Bluish white and lumpy on the back.
Shape: Shape L with press-moulded fluted border and scalloped rim. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.9cm
Diameter: D. 22.9 cms (9 ins)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Arthur Hurst
Object history
Arthur Hurst Bequest, 1940.
Production
Bristol (probably Redcliff Back, Richard Frank)
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
B103. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Accession number
C.85-1940

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
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