dessert plate



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

Place of creation

Staffordshire

Medium

Credit

Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg

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