Plate

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

Plate, shape M. Buff earthenware body covered with a lavender glaze. Painted in the middle with Chinese peonies and bamboos beside a fence in blue, on the rim with bianco-sopra-bianco flowers, pine-cones and leaves in opaque white.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted and bianco-sopra-bianco decoration
Brief description
Delftware. Plate, tin-glazed earthenware with painted and bianco-sopra-bianco decoration, probably made by Richard Frank at Redcliff Back pottery, England, ca.1760-1770
Physical description
Plate, shape M. Buff earthenware body covered with a lavender glaze. Painted in the middle with Chinese peonies and bamboos beside a fence in blue, on the rim with bianco-sopra-bianco flowers, pine-cones and leaves in opaque white.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 22.4cm
Diameter: 8 3/4 in
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber, 1885. Purchased by her from Goodman, Salisbury, August, 1881.

c.f. C.88-1940.
Production
Probably made by Richard Frank at Redcliff Back pottery.
Subjects depicted
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
  • Lady Schreiber, No: 828.
  • Burton, Pl: vi(a).
  • Church, p.86, fig: 55.
  • Rackham Schreiber, Pl: 7.
Other numbers
  • B95 - Delftware (1997) cat. no.
  • Sch. II 12 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:828-1885

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Record createdFebruary 7, 2000
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