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Maker(s):Whitehead, James and Charles (probably)
Culture:English (1793-1810)
Title:fruit dish
Date Made:circa 1800
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: lead glazed cream-colored earthenware (creamware)
Place Made:Great Britain: England; Great Britain: Staffordshire; Hanley
Measurements:Overall: 1 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 3.5 cm x 21.6 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2020.27.7
Credit Line:Gift of Barbara Cummings
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Fruit Dish, probably James and Charles Whitehead Factory (working c. 1793 - c. 1810), Hanley, Staffordshire, England, c. 1800. Lead glazed cream-colored shallow earthenware dish, round with molded, silver shape scroll edge, the slightly everted rim pierced with openwork panels between molded festoons and drops of husks suspended from the edge, lathe turned foot rim on the backside, corresponds almost exactly to Whitehead pattern book #92, “oval and round [fruit dishes], festooned, pierced from 6 to 12 Inches.”

Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location)

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