dinner plate



dinner plate

Summary

Public: Dinner plate, cream coloured earthenware, with relief-moulded feathered edge to rim, decorated with swirled and mottled brown, green, blue and yellow underglaze oxides bleeding into lead glaze. Private: Circular dinner plate with footring and broad deep well, 6-lobed rim moulded with feathered edge. Cream coloured body sponged with manganese brown oxide bleeding into rich lead-glaze, resulting in mottled dark brown and cream pattern, with daubs of green, blue and yellow scattered around well and on rim. Even mottled brown decoration to underside.


Object Name

dinner plate

Date Created

c 1750=1770

accession number

1923.682

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

Legal

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