dessert plate
Summary
Circular dessert plate with slight recessed footring and broad shallow well, rim moulded with undulating 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 yellow and green scattered around well and on rim. Even mottled brown decoration to underside with two green daubs to one side.
Object Name
dessert plate
Date Created
c 1750=1770
Dimensions
plate: 1.8cm
accession number
1923.697/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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