dish

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Object Type
Museum number: 1965,0701.1
Description: Dish; tin-glazed earthenware; outlined in manganese and painted in blue with a New Testament subject ("Christ and the woman taken in adultery"); inner border of putti, flowers and birds; outer rim decorated with diaper pattern and reserved panels of flowers and birds; inscription on reverse.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1698
Production place: Made in: London (England) (probably, or possibly Holland)
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed; painted
Dimensions: Diameter: 48.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The scene is taken from the New Testament, John 8:1-11
Bibliographic references: Wills 1967 / English Pottery in 1696: an unpublished document (p. 440, fig. 19); Lipski & Archer 1984 / Dated English Delftware (p.63; fig.214); Dawson 2010 / English and Irish Delftware 1570-1840 (pp. 106-7, no. 39)
Location: On display (G46/dc10)
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1965
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1965,0701.1
Conservation

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