1962.0670 Delf bowl top
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Bowl

  • Category:

    Ceramics

  • Place of Origin:

    Bristol or London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

  • Date:

    1730-1745

  • Materials:

    Earthenware (delftware, faience); Tin glaze

  • Techniques:

    Thrown, Hand modeled, Painted

  • Museum Object Number:

    1962.0670


  • Complete Details



Object Number

1962.0670

Object Name

Bowl

Category

Ceramics

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Place of Origin

Bristol or London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1730-1745

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Label; Underside; Buff-colored, rectangular paper label with canted corners, a red border and "#50 China/[???] Delft/for[??]/PX" handwritten in black ink
2. Label; Underside; Yellowed, rectangular paper label with the barely legible text "Ex. 12[?]...the / Age...xhi / 1932." typed in black ink

Materials

Earthenware (delftware, faience); Tin glaze

Techniques

Thrown, Hand modeled, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

2.638 (H) , 7.126 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

6.7 (H) , 18.1 (Diam)

Object Description

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Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Ray, Anthony. 1968 English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Similar form, wavy-edge bowls with floral motifs: pp. 183-4 & pl. 55, nos. 106-8, attributed to Brislington or Bristol, 1700-30
[Book] Archer, Michael. 1997 Delftware: The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Similar form, wavy-edge bowl with Chinese fence and flower motifs: col. pl. 196, no. F.24, Bristol, possibly Limekiln Lane factory, c. 1735-45; see also F.23.
[Book] Grigsby, Leslie B. 2000 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.
Similar form and subject with "DM" but portrait: vol. 2, no. 213, D188, Bristol or London, 1704-11
[Book] Austin, John C. 1994 British Delft at Williamsburg.
Excavated fragment of similar form washbasin, with polychrome decoration: p. 239, bottom & no. 579, re Williamsburg, VA, archaeological evidence.