Dish
ca. 1715-1725 (made)
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Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A Chinese figure dancing (?) before a rock (or shrine?), with a bush behind it, within geometric borders in blue, red and green. The front edge of the rim has three peg-marks.
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White, much crazed, probably with a kwaart.
Shape: Shape E, but with a well which continues at the same angle up to the rim without a flange. Bosses below the rim made with a straight implement pressed into the clay. Foot-rim pierced before firing with two holes close together. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Body colour: Buff.
Glaze: White, much crazed, probably with a kwaart.
Shape: Shape E, but with a well which continues at the same angle up to the rim without a flange. Bosses below the rim made with a straight implement pressed into the clay. Foot-rim pierced before firing with two holes close together. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware, painted |
| Brief description | Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, possibly made by Vauxhall pottery or Lambeth High Street pottery, Vauxhall or Lambeth High Street, London, ca. 1715-1725 |
| Physical description | Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A Chinese figure dancing (?) before a rock (or shrine?), with a bush behind it, within geometric borders in blue, red and green. The front edge of the rim has three peg-marks. Body colour: Buff. Glaze: White, much crazed, probably with a kwaart. Shape: Shape E, but with a well which continues at the same angle up to the rim without a flange. Bosses below the rim made with a straight implement pressed into the clay. Foot-rim pierced before firing with two holes close together. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997) |
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| Credit line | Mellor Bequest |
| Object history | Mellor Bequest, 1947. |
| Production | London (Vauxhall or Lambeth High Street) |
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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 | B197. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.92-1947 |
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| Record created | January 29, 2000 |
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