Dish
Date1800-1825
MediumLead-glazed earthenware / slipware
DimensionsH:3 1/4";L:17 3/4";W:14 1/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1930-350
DescriptionOblong slipware-trailed dish; large press molded dish of oblong shape and dark red clay body; dish has flat bottom with steeply angled flaring walls; slip trailing of gradually larger cream colored commas on walls form frond patterns; large single frond on center of bottom of dish; entire interior and part of exterior (down to about two inches below rim) coated with thick lead glaze.Label TextThis large press-molded dish, with decoration trailed in cream directly onto the brown body clay, is a type produced in some quantity around Newcastle upon Tyne, formerly in Northumberland. It probably dates to the first half of the nineteenth century, although some examples also were produced there in the late eighteenth century.
ProvenancePurchased from George N. McMahon Antiques, Boston, Mass.
1700-1725
ca. 1840
Possibly 1825-1830
1709 (dated)
1710-1730
ca. 1770
1825 (dated)
1830-1840
ca. 1715
1805-1815
1820-1840