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He regularly commissioned photographers to records works of art, architecture and design. These photographs were valued as source material for students of art and design and they formed an important element within the National Art Library's visual encyclopaedia.  \r\n\r\nThis is one of a 20 photographs by the photographic firm of Cundall & Fleming from an album donated to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A) by London-based collection John Henderson (1797-1878). The photographs would have been acquired as a visual record of Henderson’s collection of works of art in pottery, glass, and metal, some of which Henderson had loaned to an exhibition at South Kensington in 1872.  On his death in 1878, the objects were bequeathed to the British  Museum.  \r\n","physicalDescription":"A sepia-coloured photograph of ceramic plates and vases displayed on shelves mounted in a bound album accompanied by printed text.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Cundall & Fleming","id":"AUTH321249"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Cundall & Fleming","id":"AUTH321249"},"association":{"text":"printers","id":"x36385"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Albumen print","categories":[{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2015HV0132","2015HV3561"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"512M","id":"THES49774"},"free":"","case":"MX13C","shelf":"X","box":"493"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}],[{"text":"album","id":"AAT26690"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"London","id":"x28980"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1868","earliest":"1863-01-01","latest":"1872-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Presented by Mr. John Henderson, 2 June 1868","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"28.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"22.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"50.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"album","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"39.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"album","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"HENDERSON / COLLECTION","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"printed on spine of album"}],"objectHistory":"In May 1868, the London-based art collector John Henderson (1797-1878) donated a series of 20 photographs to the South Kensington Museum (today the V&A), which provided a visual record of his extensive collection of historic ceramics, glass and inlaid metalwork. The photographs show a range of objects from Europe, the Middle East and East Asia, including a significant quantity of Ottoman Iznik ceramics and Mamluk inlaid brasswork. Six years earlier, Henderson had loaned some of these objects to an exhibition held at South Kensington. 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