Dish, Vegetable

Title:

Lindertis Forfarshire

Object Name:

Dish, Vegetable

Object ID:

1914.014.007 a-b

Creator:

Hall, John (1)Ceramicist; Hall, Ralph

Place of Origin:

Staffordshire, England

Date:

1818-1830

Description:

Vegetable dish with cover. Pearlware earthenware. Rectangular dish with curved corners, upward flaring rim, and groove around rim to hold cover. Scalloped outline. Upper surface ends molded in the shape of foliage to form handles. Set on four feet, decorated with molded palm leaf clusters and foliage. Domed cover with two superimposed sections and a clustered fruit finial. Underglaze, transfer printed design in deep blue. Central scene on inner surface of dish shows large structure with central portico and semi-circular domed bays at either side. Two human figures by stream in foreground, one on horseback. Central scene on outer surface of cover shows turreted Gothic structure; three human figures and dog on bank of stream in foreground. The scenes extend to outer edges of both dish and cover, forming what has been called a foliage border. Decorative bands of C-shaped elements at outer edges. Outer surface of dish decorated obverse and reverse, with vignettes showing a sailboat on a lake or river. Printed marks on bottom of dish: "X" and "SHUGBOROUGH / STAFFORDSHIRE". Printed mark on inner surface of cover: "LINDERTIS / FORFARSHIRE".
Object Register:
a. dish
b. lid

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware

Dimensions:

H-6.9 W-12.1 D-9.1 inches

Provenance:

Ceramics collected by Martha E. Durgin (1833-1916) of Concord, NH. She began collecting in the late 1880s and donated the collection to the Society in 1914.

Credit Line:

Gift of Martha E. Durgin

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916), Hall, John, Hall, Ralph