Charger
Dateca. 1650
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)
DimensionsDiam: 13"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1968-760
DescriptionShallow bowled charger with everted rim and foot ring. Lead glaze on the back; white tin glaze on the front. Geometric design in the center surrounded by intertwined scallops. Blue-dash rim with two inner bands. Colors alternate throughout between slightly grayish blue and orange-brown.Label TextAs with some of the earlier drug jars in the same colors, it is impossible to say definitively where this dish was made. The decoration was popular on both sides of the North Sea. Fragments with a similar decoration have been excavated in Amsterdam, but shards from almost identical dishes have been recovered in London, and others excavated in Southwark are similar. A bit of a rim with a similar overlapping arc border, also in blue and orange, was found near Williamsburg, and many unpublished examples have been excavated at Jamestown, Virginia.
InscribedNo
MarkingsNo
ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. G. B. Slater
Tilley & Co., ondon
