Dish: C.1403-1928

Maker(s)

Pottery: unidentified London pottery

Entities

• Dish
• charger

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• English delftware

Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and orange with leaves and fruit

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue, green, yellow and orange; the reverse possibly slip-coated, and then covered with a green lead-glaze with radiating dribbles. Circular with deep curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. In the middle there is a circular medallion framed by a narrow blue line flanked by wider yellow lines enclosed large split leaf, painted half in blue, and half in yellow with orange veins, surrounded by four striped blue fruits and four striped orange fruits and leaves. Round the medallion there is a wide border of four similarly coloured leaves split by panels of trellis diaper. In the spaces between the outer edges of the leaves there are either two striped blue and one striped orange fruits or two orange and one blue. The edge is encircled by a yellow line and blue dashes. In the middle there are three spur marks.

Notes

History note: Unidentified private owner; bought by Mr Hardiman of Cambridge, from whom purchased in 1923 for £4 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century, Late
Charles II
Circa 1660 CE - 1680 CE

Note

This design is related to the leaf designs on large maiolica dishes from Montelupo in Tuscany which were imported into England and of which fragments have been found on sites in London and elsewhere.