Dish

Date1700-1725

MediumLead-glazed earthenware

DimensionsOH: 2 1/2"; Diam: 14 3/16"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1958-321

DescriptionSlipware dish; trailed, dotted decoration. Press molded "clock face" charger with red body showing finger or mallet marks on back where clay was pressed into mold. Relief molded borders, outlines to numbers, sun, and the initials "IC." Serrated rim. Interior coated with cream colored slip. Red brown slip trailed, interlocking curves around inside of rim. Same color used to fill in Roman numerals on face in cloisonné technique. Sun at 12:00 position and trailed turtle or bug nearer center of dish applied in red brown slip. (This is probably after the Oriental type of water clock which consists of a shallow bowl filled with water on which a cork turtle with a magnetized pin is floated to point to the time.) The center of the dish is encircled with a single row of slip dots and near the 6:00 position is a small slip trailed cartouche containing the relief initials "IC." Interior coated with yellow lead glaze.
Label TextThe potter's initials, "IC," stand in relief below the center of this slip-trailed press-molded clock face dish, probably made in Staffordshire during the first quarter of the eighteenth century.

This dish illustrates the shallow relief typical of pieces pressed from an over-used and worn mold.
InscribedRoman numerals I through XI and initials "IC."
Markings"IC"
ProvenanceEx Collection: Ernest Allman.