Plate
Date1714-1737
OriginEngland, London
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)
DimensionsD: 8 3/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1957-70
DescriptionPlate without a foot ring. Bluish tin glaze decorated in blue with the initials GR surmounted by a crown surrounded by stylized leafage. Concentric banding and a border of intertwined scallops.Label TextThis plate could have been made to commemorate either George I or George II. The rim decoration is similar to that found on both GR and AR Act of Union plates (see CWF accession 1956-317) and on plates with Queen Anne's portrait. Several plates with intertwined-scallop borders have been excavated at Limekiln Lane in Bristol and at the Prentis House-Russell House (17DA.0689), the Coke-Garrett House (27AB.0277), and Wetherburn's Tavern (9NA.1539) in Williamsburg. The inner ring of stylized leafage is not unlike the rim of a barber's bowl dated 1763. A cruder dish with the initials GR is dated 1740, illustrating that a monarch was not always identified numerically (as the second or third, and so on). The London attribution is based on the shape of the plate.
InscribedInscribed "GR"
MarkingsNo
ProvenanceJoseph Vizcarra, Lombard, IL
