| Culture: | English
| | Title: | plate
| | Date Made: | ca. 1810
| | Type: | Food Service
| | Materials: | ceramic: lead-glazed, refined white earthenware (pearlware, china glaze), overglaze polychrome enamels, purple luster, transfer print
| | Place Made: | United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire (probably)
| | Measurements: | overall: 1 1/8 x 10 in.
| | Accession Number: | HD 2970
| | Credit Line: | Gift of John B. Morris, Jr.
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
English lusterware plate decorated decorated in pink, purple, red, blue, yellow, green, orange, and black with a chinoiserie garden scene. The well has a hand-colored transfer print of four women, two with covered tureens and one with a fan; there is a purple luster mountain range in the background and an orange fence behind the women and in the foreground. The interior sides are decorated with six large flowers and branches with flowers and berries. A similar design is on the puch bowl, HD 2971; both were in J. M. Morris's collection (the plate # 3084). Acording to a hand-written note in the file, both belonged to the Sandys family who lived in either the west of England or Wales.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); polychrome Link to share this object record:
https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+2970 |
