Description:
English delft circular shallow plate without a foot rim and with blue, orange-red, and green decoration. The plate is decorated with an edge-to-edge scene of a songbird standing on a branch, surrounded with square brush-stroke leaves and grass, a orange-red flower, and a stylized flying insect on the rim over the bird's head. The inscription on the right rim, "1761 THOMAS PERRY", was added some time in the 19th or early 20th century. Dated and inscribed delftware traditionally receive more interest from collectors and higher prices on the ceramics market. The inscription had already been added when a photograph of the plate appeared in a book printed in 1918. The date "1761" may have appealed to the faker because it appears on many plates painted with bianco-sopra-bianco decoration. Inscriptions on period pieces of delftware are usually fluid and unforced, while this example exhibits clumsy and uneven lettering that lacks an eighteenth-century character. A crossed "A" is a relatively modern formation of the letter that would not have been used by an eighteenth-century decorator. According to Louis Lispki, an authentic inscription would have naturally followed the curve of the rim. In addition, obvious signs of refiring include areas of bubbling, pitting, and roughness over the surface of the plate. The color of the added enamel is, however, a fairly good match for the rest of the iron-red pigment on the plate. The Bristol attribution is based on the plate profile and decoration.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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