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KC1965-859
Plate
KC1965-859

Plate

Dateca. 1755
Maker Delamain's Factory (1752-1770s)
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)
DimensionsD: 9 3/8" (point to point)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1965-82
DescriptionPlate with round well, ten sided rim, and no foot ring. White tin glaze decoration in blue with a man and a boy on a hillside watching sailboats; on the rim, 5 repeats of a Chinese symbol and flower motif.
Label TextTen-sided plates such as this are rare. The decoration seen here and on many of the Irish delft pieces in the Colonial Williamsburg collection relates to scenes on a punch bowl in the British Museum that bears the inscription "Clay got over the Primate's Coals--Dublin 1753."
InscribedNo
MarkingsNo
ProvenanceF. H. Garner
Tilley & Co., London
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