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Museum number: 1855,0811.2
Description: Dish; tin-glazed earthenware; broad rim; painted in blue, manganese, copper green, orange and yellow; Jacob's dream with angels on ladder; inscription; four oval panels with Seasons, inscription on one; spaces filled with grotesques; back also tin-glazed but in a different glaze to the front; circular hole in footrim
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1660
Production place: Factory in: Southwark
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 42 centimetres; Diameter: 16.40 inches
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Curator's comments: Burman 1993 attributes this dish to the Pickleherring Pottery in Southwark.
Bibliographic references: Marryat 1857 / Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain (p. 144); Marryat 1868 / Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain; Church 1884 / English Earthenware: A Handbook to the Wares madie in England during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries as Illustrated by Specimens in the National Collections (p39 & fig.29); Hodgkin & Hodgkin 1891 / Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated and Inscribed (no. 309); Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (E49) (Plate 12); Rackham 1914a / English Earthenware and Stoneware at the Burlington Fine Arts Club (p.277); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p.25, fig.35); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (No.262); Burman 1993 / Motifs and Motivations:The Decoration of some 17th century Delftwares: Part 2: Images & Emblems (p.101); Lomax 2013 / Baroque forms and decoration on English Pottery 1640-1760 (Fig. 16)
Location: On display (G46/dc10)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1989 12 Sep-15 Oct, Glasgow, Art Gallery & Museum, Ceramics for the Italian Renaissance 1989 22 Jan-2 Apr, Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum & Art Gallery, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
Subjects: angel; grotesque; allegory/personification; old testament
Associated names: Representation of: Jacob; Representation of: Winter; Representation of: Autumn; Representation of: Spring; Representation of: Summer
Associated events: Associated Event: Jacob's dream
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Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1855
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,0811.2
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