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Culture:English
Title:plate
Date Made:1740-1750
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: tin-glazed earthenware decorated in cobalt blue
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Bristol
Measurements:overall: 1 in x 8 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 22.225 cm
Accession Number:  HD 91.204
Credit Line:Museum Collections Fund
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
English delft circular plate decorated in blue on a light pink glaze with stylized central decoration of dark blue rhomboidal shaped foliage on long, thin curving stems. The rim has four groups of stylized square foliage sprigs on curving stems, one of which is smeared. The Frenchs found the plate in Connecticut. Fragments with this pattern have been found in excavations at Limekiln Lane in Bristol, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Dr. Thomas Williams House privy site in Historic Deerfield.

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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