Description:
English delft, long oval spoon tray with a single compartment, decorated in blue. When people realized that the lumps of sugar used to sweeten tea and coffee dissolved more quickly if stirred, both the teaspoon and spoon tray appeared on the tea table. The earliest spoon trays, which were in silver as befitted the high cost of coffee and tea, were used to hold wet spoons to protect the table and cloths. This tray has an scalloped, rococo edge, reflecting those early silver forms, with two pointed ends, and a blue border around the interior rim of alternating flowerhead panels and blue-washed trellis-work. The well is decorated with a horizontal landscape with two houses, tall tree, rock, and running fence. The dish is supported on four crescent-shaped feet. This shape is also found in white salt-glazed stoneware, solid agateware, and redware.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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