dish
- Museum number
- 1920,0318.1
- Description
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Dish; red earthenware; deep bowl with steep curved sides and crinkled rim edge; moulded; decorated with brown slip on white, coated with translucent yellowish lead-glaze; in centre, outlined in relief, is Royal Arms: quartered shield with whole encircled by garter and surmounted by crown, supported by lion and unicorn, lion passant below; unglazed on reverse with slightly concave base bearing inscription.
- Production date
- 1725
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 38.70 centimetres (max)
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Depth: 7.90 centimetres (max)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Tait 1990 illustrates a dish from the same mould by Shaw in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and one sold at Philips, London, 29 November 1989, lot 241 inscribed on the reverse 'Clifton Dish'. This dish illustrated on p19 of David Barker's 1993 Shire booklet on Slipware is now in the Helena Thompson Museum Workington, purchased for £23,415.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1913-14, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Early English Earthenware, cat. p.46, Case C No.17
- Condition
- Broken in two and repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Acquisition notes
- Label on reverse reads "Old English Slipware. Presented to Mr J N Wallis of Distington Museum by Mr Ritson, Distington. Purchased at the sale Aug 1899 T Boynton".
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1920,0318.1