Portrait Plaque of Elizabeth Canning
Date1755-1760
OriginEngland, Staffordshire
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (cream-colored earthenware / creamware / tortoiseshell-colored earthenware)
DimensionsOH: 6 3/8"; OW: 5 7/8"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1961-227,2
DescriptionPlaque molded with a 3/4 portrait of Elizabeth Canning within a Roccoco cartouche of irregular shape composed of c- and s-scrolls and shells. She faces frontward and gestures to the proper right and wears a white cap with blue trim and a green shawl over her blue and gold dress. The portrait against a mottled steel gray ground. The individual elements each painted in differing tortoiseshell oxide colors, including green, yellow, and blue. The back flat, with all-over gray coloring and some evidence of stilt marks under the paper lables.InscribedNone
MarkingsNone
ProvenanceEx Coll: Harland, No. R.36
with P[?] D[?] 12 Dec. 1923
Ex Coll: T. Scholes
with Sotheby's London, 14 Nov. 1961
Exhibition(s)
ca. 1800
ca. 1765
1765-1775
1650-1675
ca. 1750
1765-1770
1765-1770
1825-1834
1825-1834
ca. 1815