Dish
- Title:
- Maxstoke Castle Warwickshire
- Object Name:
- Dish
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.010
- Creator:
- Hall, John (1); Hall, Ralph
- Place of Origin:
- Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1818-1830
- Description:
- Dish. Pearlware earthenware. Deep oval dish; overhanging lip at rim with slightly scalloped outline; flat bottom. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue. Central scene on inner surface shows a towered and battlemented structure in background with three human figures and dog on shore of moat in foreground. Scene extends onto rim forming what has been called a foliage border. Decorated bands of C-shaped elements at edge. Outer surface decorated, obverse and reverse, with vignettes showing a sailboat on a lake or river, the two scenes differing slightly. Printed mark on outer surface at end: "MAXSTOKE CASTLE / WARWICKSHIRE". Impressed figure "12" on bottom. Part of a set.
- Material:
- Ceramic
- Dimensions:
- H-2.4 W-12.6 D-9.85 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
- Subjects:
- Castles and palaces, Maxstoke Castle
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