Plate
Date1742 (dated)
OriginEngland, Liverpool
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)
DimensionsDiam: 8 5/8" OH: 1 1/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Antique Collectors' Guild
Object number1989-328
DescriptionPlate with incised foot ring. Bluish tin glaze decorated in blue with two oriental men in a Chinese landscape surrounded by a band of trellis diaper and flower sprays. On the rim, four repeats of floral sprays; red edge. On the reverse: the initials "I H M" and the date 1742; three stylized sprays around the bowl.Label TextThis is the only recorded dated plate of this pattern. Three other plates and two soup plates bearing this design (but without dates and in varying degrees of blue) are also in the Colonial Williamsburg collection (accessions 1972-348,1-2, I970-98, 1972-232, and 1972-430). The diameters of all five are all within an eighth of an inch of this one. The pattern is also found on a Liverpool-shaped water bottle in the collection (accession 1955-83). Fragments of seven plates in three different sizes with this decoration have been excavated in Williamsburg at Wetherburn's Tavern and the adjacent Charlton lot (9NA).
InscribedInitials I H M and the date 1742 on the base.
MarkingsNo
ProvenanceA. R. Broomer, Ltd, New York
Exhibition(s)
ca. 1750
ca. 1765
ca. 1745
ca. 1770
ca. 1760
ca. 1770
1788 (dated)
ca. 1760
1800-1827 (compiled); some 1726
ca. 1750
1850-1870
ca. 1760