Description:
Dutch (probably) large, round dish with curving brim and shallow well, painted on the front surface in cobalt blue. The rim is decorated with a border of crosshatched marks; the brim has eight palmette designs on a striped ground; and the well has a stylized floral pattern. The reverse side is covered with opaque white tin glaze. An attached white label reads "#963 Delft 14" plate/ from John Buck Hartford/ Ath. Collection - sold 5/57" and in red crayon "9630D". There are sizable chips to the rim. From the lack of wear and the relative perfection of the clay body and glaze, I (Amanda Lange, ceramics curator, 11/1994) am doubtful that this object is a period piece of 18th-century Dutch delft. Although the dish would have been hanging on a wall, there is very little wear on the foot rim surface. Chips along the edge of the rim appear o have been purposefully darkened with perhaps a pencil. The profile of the footrim looks mechanical.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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