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
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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