dish

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Object Type
Museum number: 1887,0307,E.45
Description: Dish, tin-glazed earthenware, moulded with a fluted pattern, two applied scroll handles; painted in blue with ornamental cartouche, inscription and date.
Producer name
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1666
Production place: Made in: Southwark (?); Made in: Wapping (?)
Materials
Ware
Technique: moulded; tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Height: 4.80 centimetres; Length: 19.80 centimetres (incl. handles); Length: 7.80 inches
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: There is a similar shaped dish with painted decoration attributed to Brislington in the V&A, cat. F.2 This dish was described by Lipski as a 'sauceboat' but Archer was unhappy with this identification.
Bibliographic references: 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 (p. 38); Hodgkin & Hodgkin 1891 / Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated and Inscribed (no. 322 & fig.); Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (E45); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p. 35, no.1036); Archer 1997 / Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles: a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum (F.2); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (p. 234, no. 104)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1887
Acquisition notes: Labellled '87AF58'.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1887,0307,E.45
Conservation: Treatment: 26 Mar 1998; Treatment: 28 Nov 1997; Treatment: 28 May 2008

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