bowl

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Object Type
Museum number: 1891,0524.2
Description: Bowl; tin-glazed earthenware;fluted rim and two tier moulded sides; painted in blue and orange with a coat-of-arms (four roses and nine diamonds) ; pelican in her piety crest and mantling; inscription.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1653
Production place: Made in: Southwark
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted; mould-made
Dimensions: Diameter: 28.40 centimetres; Diameter: 11.10 inches; Height: 7.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The shape may derive from metalwork. The coat-of-arms was identified as those of Packer but it was suggested more recently that they might be those of the Makers of Playing Cards Company or Pasteboard Makers, neither of which is recorded as authorised in the seventeenth century (Lipski & Archer 1984). They have now been confirmed as those of the Packer family of Gloucestershire by Clive Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Poursuivant (2007).
Bibliographic references: Hodgkin & Hodgkin 1891 / Examples of Early English Pottery Named, Dated and Inscribed (no. 283); Hobson 1903 / Catalogue of the collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquites and Ethnography of the British Museum (E44); Archer 1973 / English Delftware: Engels Delfts aardewerk (no. 33); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p. 40, fig. 101); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 110-111, no. 41)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1973 Mar-Jul, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, English Delftware, cat. 33
Condition: Glaze crazed - May 2006.
Subjects: heraldry; leaf
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1891,0524.2
Conservation: Treatment: 26 Mar 1998; Treatment: 09 Dec 1997

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