Description:
Rococo-style dish with molded basket weave border, pears, peaches, and melons decorate the marly or bouge, and are suspended over scrolled cartouches filled alternately with a diaper pattern or a fluted pattern, the center of the plate is encircled by a cord, contains a scrolled, trefoil reserve surrounded by a basket weave pattern. The surface of the dish is painted sparingly with metallic oxide colors and colored glazes in green, yellow, bluish-gray, and a blackish gray. Naturalistic forms, such as fruit and plants, were frequently integrated into English ceramic Rococo design. The Rococo’s embrace of naturalism was certainly inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, an 18th-century intellectual movement that raised man’s reason and scientific inquiry and discovery to new authoritative heights. Various publications, including museum catalogues, highlighted natural discoveries and curiosities that were incorporated into ceramic forms. This molded dish is known in cream-colored earthenware and white salt-glazed stoneware. The rim is sometimes pierced. Condition: The rim with a small hair crack and some glaze flaws on the underside.
Label Text:
Exibited in "Rococo: Celebrating 18th Century Design and Decoration" (2018-2019): Naturalistic forms and decoration were frequently integrated into English ceramic Rococo design, as illustrated by this group of pottery and porcelain. The Rococo's embrace of naturalism was certainly inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, and 18th-century intellectual movement that raised man's reason and scientific inquiry and discovery to new authoritative heights. Various publications, including the British Museum catalogue at the center of the case, highlighted natural discoveries and curiousities that were incorporated into ceramic forms, such as the adjacent sweetmeat stand with shell-shaped dishes. Several other ceramics in this case imitate the shape or appereance of natural stone or plants, such as the agate teapot and the cauliflower-shaped coffee pot. Some Deerfield residents were eager consumers of these new wares. For instance, in 1773, Paul Hawks purchased "1 Large agate tea pot" from Deerfield store owner John Williams (1751-1816)
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