Tureen
- Object Name:
- Tureen
- Object ID:
- 1968.048.01 a-b
- Creator:
- Stubbs, Joseph
Ceramicist - Place of Origin:
- Burslem, Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1820
- Description:
- Tureen with lid. Pearlware earthenware. Yellow/green transfer print on exterior of lid and interior of tureen dish. Dish has rectangular shape with canted corners and slightly concave sides. Two projecting handles on dish and rectangular pedestal base. Floral finial on lid. Transfer print in center of dish depicts two people standing and one seated in a garden area in front of a church. The people are beside a large gate with a very large urn on top of the gate post. Also very large flowers and plants around them. Sides and rim of dish are covered with floral transfer prints. Base of dish also has a floral transfer print. Transfer print on lid includes four vignettes, each with a castle or church in background and people in foreground. Two scenes depict people in a small wooden boat; other two scenes depict a person seated on the ground by a river. Below the vignettes is a band of floral transfer print. Two marks on the bottom of dish. One is an impressed diamond. Other is a text of approximately five letters which is illegible.
Object register:
a. dish.
b. lid. - Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-6.6 W-12.7 D-10 inches
- Provenance:
- Note from donor: "Green Staffordshire covered serving dish, one of two surviving pieces (the other a pitcher in possession of aunt of the donor) of set tradition says was wedding set of George & Hattie (Goldthwaite) Rose of Lyndeborough, N.H. One small flaw, a flake, on the edge of the cover is an old one; otherwise in good condition. Marked on base with a diamond and another illegible mark."
George Rose (1836-1903) and Harriet (aka Hattie) Goldthwaite (1841-1872) were married in 1859, and were the donor's great-grandparents. - Credit Line:
- Gift of Glenn Skillen
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