dish or charger

Summary

Public: Circular dish, red earthenware, decorated with a slip-trailed pattern in dark and light red slips over white slip ground, depicting a bird surmounted by a fleur-de-lis with dated inscription and formalised border round rim. Private: Deep circular charger with wide flattened notched rim, coarse red earthenware coated on upper surface with white slip and decorated with a slip-trailed pattern in dark red, with details in marbled dark and light red, showing dark brown and orange through lead glaze. Pattern comprises pelican type bird with arched neck and lowered head, body filled in with alternating brown and marbled orange wavy lines, wing in brown and orange diagonal lines. Upper legs filled in with marbled orange. Simple fleur-de-lys motif above pelican to right, in dark brown filled in with marbled orange and flanked by initials 'A W'. Beneath pelican's chest to left, around edge of well, dark brown inscription reads 'I T 1736'. Formalised border to rim of alternating double loops and spotted stems in dark brown, each loop surmounting small triangle filled in with marbled orange and semi-circular rows of orange dots between loops.