dinner plate



dinner plate

Summary

Public: Dinner plate, white salt-glazed stoneware, with relief-moulded decoration of fruit and scrolls, and pierced diamond basketwork border. Private: Circular dinner plate with broad shallow well, sloping rim and circular footring. Relief-moulded decoration to well, of circular panel containing basketweave ground and scrollwork within ribbon twist border, encircled by border of alternating trellis and cagework grounds and scrollwork. Three groups of high relief fruits on leafy twigs suspended from ribbon twist border around edge of well, fruits including apples and pears, and possibly walnuts and melons. Plate rim moulded and pierced with simple trellis basketwork, giving scalloped rim edge.


Object Name

dinner plate

Date Created

c 1750=1770

Dimensions

(33mm): 33mm
(245mm):

accession number

1923.478

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

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