dish

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Object Type
Museum number: 1926,0428.1.CR
Description: Fragment of a dish, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue and yellow with four pomegranates and inscribed and dated in blue within central circles inside a diamond-shaped panel; whole footrim and part of rim remains.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1647
Production place: Made in: Southwark (Although this fragment was found in Bristol, it is likely to have been made in Southwark at the date inscribed.)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: J S Fry & Sons' Factories
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 8 centimetres (footrim); Length: 18 centimetres (max.); Length: 4.10 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Pritchard 1926 / The Pithay, Bristol (p. 262); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (pp. 20-1, no. 17); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 294-5, no. 140); Archer 2013 / Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (A. 81) (compare)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Repaired across the centre
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1926
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1926,0428.1.CR
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Jun 2008; Treatment: 22 Nov 2010

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