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 brown and cream pattern, swirled and pooled in plate well. Mottled brown decoration to underside.
Object Name
dessert plate
Date Created
c 1770=1780
Dimensions
plate: 1.8cm x 23.8cm
plate: 2.7cm x 23.6cm
accession number
1923.681/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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