Plate

Dateca. 1755

Maker Delamain's Factory 1752-1770s

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)

DimensionsD: 9 3/8" (point to point)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1965-82

DescriptionPlate with round well, ten sided rim, and no foot ring. White tin glaze decoration in blue with a man and a boy on a hillside watching sailboats; on the rim, 5 repeats of a Chinese symbol and flower motif.Label TextTen-sided plates such as this are rare. The decoration seen here and on many of the Irish delft pieces in the Colonial Williamsburg collection relates to scenes on a punch bowl in the British Museum that bears the inscription "Clay got over the Primate's Coals--Dublin 1753."Inscription(s)NoMark(s)NoProvenanceF. H. Garner
Tilley & Co., London