Tureen

Title:

Jeddo

Object Name:

Tureen

Object ID:

1973.061.02 a-b

Creator:

Adams, WilliamCeramicist

Place of Origin:

England

Date:

1860-1880

Description:

Vegetable Dish with Cover. Ironstone earthenware. Flow blue-black transfer print design covers entire upper surface in a Chinoiserie pattern. Pictured in the foreground is an urn shaped vase on steps surrounded with large flowers. To the right and left are pagoda houses with fences, flowers and trees. In the background are two additional pagoda houses. The urn and flowers design is repeated on the rim. The same scene is repeated on the exterior of the dish on four sides. Edge of base decorated in solid blue band with pairs of x's above which is a trifid pattern. Lid upper surface covered with urn and pagoda pattern and edged in same pattern as pedestal base. Dish is eight sided with slightly flaring rim, and eight sided pedestal base. Two ends of dish are slightly extended with scroll work, forming handles. Lid is eight sided and has a looped handle finial with molded leaf decoration at base of handle. Two marks on bottom. One mark is impressed in a semi-circle, in upper case Roman letters, "W.ADAMS & SONS". The second mark is underglaze blue-black transfer print which shows a circular belt above which is an eagle or bird. Between inner and outer edge of belt in upper case Roman letters, "W.ADAMS & SONS". Pattern name is within the circle, in upper case sans-serif letters, "JEDDO". Below the belt in upper case Roman letters, is "IRONSTONE". Part of a set along with a small platter (1973.61.1-.2). Object register: a lid; b base.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware - Ironstone

Dimensions:

H-6.6 W-11.1 D-9.2 inches

Provenance:

Part of a collection of objects owned by the donor's mother, Grace Porter Holt (1860-1949).

Credit Line:

Gift of Lura Frost

People:

Adams, William, Holt, Grace Porter (1860-1949), Frost, Lura (1886-1978)