Plate
- Title:
- The Meeting of Sancho and Dapple
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.169
- Creator:
- Clews, James; Clews, Ralph
- Place of Origin:
- Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1819-1836
- Description:
- Plate. Blue transfer printed earthenware. Circular plate with upward curving rim and slightly irregular edge. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue, pearlware. Central scene on inner surface, encircled by beaded band, shows two men, one on horse with spear, and one with mule. Large tree nearby. Large six-pointed star with beaded border surrounds scene, extending onto rim. Floral design within each point. In space on rim between points, birds alternate with urns of flowers. Decorative band at edge. Outer surface undecorated. Blue underglaze printed mark on bottom: "THE MEETING / OF SANCHO / AND DAPPLE", Dapple being the mule. Impressed "O" on reverse.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-1.1 Dia-8.9 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s. Source of view: engraving from painting by Robert Smirke, Esq., reproduced in the 1818 ed. of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- Subjects:
- Don Quixote, Horses
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