Dish

Date1766 (dated)

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)

DimensionsDiam: 14 3/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1961-112

DescriptionDish with relatively deep bowl and cylindrical foot ring. Bluish tin glaze decorated predominantly in blue with a three-masted ship under sail; touches of red on the Union Jack and the ensign and poop deck in red. Scalloped band on the rim. Below the ship, the inscription "Success to Jane Jones, of Newbridge, in Cardiganshire 1766."
Label TextCommemorative or presentation ship decoration is generally found on Liverpool punch bowls and is rare on a dish such as this. A nine-inch plate in the Glaisher Collection, painted in the same style but with a two-masted ship, is not dated, and a pair in a private collection is dated 1747. Part of an earlier and more crudely painted plate decorated with a ship at full sail was excavated in Williamsburg at the John Crump House-Burdett's Ordinary site (17CA.0159).
InscribedPainted in well under ship: "Succefs to Iane Iones, of / Newbridge, in Cardiganshire / 1766"
MarkingsNone
ProvenanceTilley & Co., London