dessert plate



dessert plate

Summary

Dessert 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 grey and cream pattern, with geometric arrangement of green, turquoise and yellow-brown daubs in well and around rim. Mottled grey decoration to underside. One only on display.


Object Name

dessert plate

Date Created

1770=1780 (circa)

accession number

1923.651/2

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

Legal

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