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Object name(s):
Flower pot
Brief description:
Flower pot of unglazed red earthenware painted with black enamel and gilded. Cylindrical in shape with a contracted base supported on three small feet. Decorated with two vertically reeded bands between bands and lines of black and gold.
Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum
Associated concept:
Ceramics
Associated concept:
Earthenware
Content - concept:
reeded
Credit line:
Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Current reproduction location:
https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EB8667/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:
Thumbnail
Dimension:
Height
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
21.9
Dimension:
Diameter
Dimension measurement unit:
cm
Dimension value:
19.7
Inscription content:
'WATCOMBE TORQUAY'
Inscription interpretation:
Impressed
Material:
earthenware
Material:
enamel
Object history note:
Given by the Watcombe Terra Cotta Clay Company. Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street.
Object name:
Flower pot
Object number:
3736-1901
Object production date:
1869-1876
Date - association:
made
Date - earliest / single:
1869-01-01
Date - latest:
1876-12-31
Object production organisation:
Watcombe Pottery Co.
Organisation's association:
maker
Object production place:
Torquay
Place association:
made
Physical description:
Flower pot of unglazed red earthenware painted with black enamel and gilded. Cylindrical in shape with a contracted base supported on three small feet. Decorated with two vertically reeded bands between bands and lines of black and gold.
Reproduction number:
2010EB8667
Reproduction number:
2010EB8666
Responsible department/section:
CER
Technique:
painted
Technique:
gilded
Technique:
Earthenware painted with black enamel and gilded
Text reason:
Collections online record
Text:
Flower Pot made by Watcombe Terra-Cotta Co., Torquay , Devon, England, 3736-1901 Given by the Watcombe Terracotta Clay Company
Text date:
23/05/2008
Text reason:
Gallery label text

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/786fc113-a1de-3e75-8738-19fd2dc07f7b

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/786fc113-a1de-3e75-8738-19fd2dc07f7b, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC

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