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Bowl
1730-1745
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Bristol or London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (delftware, faience)
- Tin glaze
Museum Object Number
1962.0670
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1962.0670
Object Name
Bowl
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Bristol or London; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1730-1745
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Buff-colored, rectangular paper label with canted corners, a red border and "#50 China/[???] Delft/for[??]/PX" handwritten in black ink
Type: Label
Location: Underside
Inscription: Yellowed, rectangular paper label with the barely legible text "Ex. 12[?]...the / Age...xhi / 1932." typed in black ink
Mark/Signature: No
Materials
- Earthenware (delftware, faience)
- Tin glaze
Techniques
- Thrown
- Hand modeled
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
2.638 (H) x 7.126 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
6.7 (H) x 18.1 (Diam)
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, 1700-30Book: 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, 1704-11Book: 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.