dinner plate

Summary

Public: Octagonal dinner plate with milled rim, cream coloured earthenware, decorated with swirled and mottled brown underglaze oxide bleeding into lead glaze. Private: Dinner plate with broad deep circular well and flat octagonal rim with milled edge. Cream coloured body sponged with manganese brown oxide bleeding into rich lead-glaze, resulting in mottled dark brown and cream pattern, swirled and pooled in plate well. Mottled brown decoration to underside.