Plate
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1945.031.12
- Place of Origin:
- Liverpool, England
- Date:
- 1757-1765
- Description:
- Plate. Light blue tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Circular body with deep cavetto and rim flaring slightly upward. Painted in center of front a blue fence, green leaves and flowers in blue, yellow and reddish brown, with dark veins in both petals and leaves. Four flowers with leaves painted on rim. Typed on paper label with red border "Given By Miss Mary Bell Willson, / Manchester, N. H. / October, 1945. / 1 Delft plate. Mate to it in American Wing, Metropolitan." "This plate was / brot over in 1760 by my ancestor who kept / a tavern in Hampstead, N.H."
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Tin-glazed - Dimensions:
- H-1.5 Dia-11.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Label with the plate reads, "This plate was brought over in 1760 by my ancestor who kept a tavern in Hampstead, N.H." Presumably this was written by the donor, Mary Bell Willson. Her ancestor Hezekiah Hutchins (1728-1796) had a tavern in Hampstead, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mary Bell Willson
- Subjects:
- Ceramics, Ceramic industries, Decorations, Dining
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