Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

ca. 1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Bowl with rounded sides and small neatly potted foot. The glaze has a bluish tinge, and the bowl is decorated with two clumps of flowering plants outside and one inside, painted in thin greyish-blue outline-and-wash.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Bowl, porcelain painted in underglaze blue; Japan, Hirado kilns, Edo period, ca. 1800
Physical description
Bowl with rounded sides and small neatly potted foot. The glaze has a bluish tinge, and the bowl is decorated with two clumps of flowering plants outside and one inside, painted in thin greyish-blue outline-and-wash.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 10cm
Styles
Gallery label
Bowl Porcelain painted in underglaze blue, with flowering plants Hirado ware JAPANESE; c.1800 Given by Mr and Mrs David King FE.39-1982(as at 2005)
Credit line
Given by David and Annela King
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
FE.39-1982

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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