Dish, Vegetable

Title:

Gayhurst Buckinghamshire

Object Name:

Dish, Vegetable

Object ID:

1914.014.008 a-b

Creator:

Hall, John (1)Ceramicist; Hall, Ralph

Place of Origin:

Staffordshire, England

Date:

1818-1830

Description:

Dish with cover. Pearlware earthenware. Oval dish with upward flaring rim, grooved to hold cover. Scalloped outline. Upper surface of 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 three-storied structure to left of finial and church to right, with four human figures and dog in foreground. The scenes extend to outer edges of both cover and dish, forming what has been called a foliage border. Decorative bands to C-shaped elements at outer edges. Out surface of dish decorated, obverse and reverse, with vignettes showing a sailboat on a lake or river, the two scenes differing slightly. Printed marks on bottom of dish: "X" and "SHUGBOROUGH / STAFFORDSHIRE". Printed marks on inner surface of cover: "GAYHURST / BUCKINGHAMSHIRE" and "X". Part of a set.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware

Dimensions:

H-6.9 W-12.1 D-9.15 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