Dish

Object Name:

Dish

Object ID:

1942.005.21

Place of Origin:

France (or elsewhere in Continental Europe)

Date:

1700-1800

Description:

Elongated Octagonal Dish. Tin-glazed earthenware. Straight-sided dish, with two handles and four square feet. Convex ridges at top and bottom. Handles are rope twisted. Handpainted polychrome design on interior and exterior; colors include green, brown, gold and blue. Interior decoration includes floral grouping and flying insect on base and alternating flowers and insects on the sides. Exterior decoration includes two scenes separated with floral groupings. One scene shows a large bird standing on the ground and seven birds in the distance. Flowers are in front of the bird. The bird has a large, open beak, a crest, and is colored blue and gold. The scene on the opposite side depicts two people with flowers in the foreground and birds in the background. One person is carrying a spear and the other is carrying what might be a banner. Both people have hats with feathers and are wearing puffy sleeved bodices and skirts. The top and bottom ridges are decorated with diagonal lines in green and brown. Both handles are decorated with green and brown dots. Maker's mark on the reverse is in brown, hand-painted underglaze, in upper case script: "P", with a circle in the middle. There are several remnants of black overglaze marks, one of which is an "X", the others are illegible. The four feet are each square in shape and taper down toward the bottom.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware

Dimensions:

H-3.3 Dia-9.2 inches

Provenance:

From the ceramics collection of Margaret Jewell.

Credit Line:

Gift of Margaret H. Jewell

People:

Jewell, Margaret H. (1866-1970)