Dish

Date1750-1775

OriginEngland, Midlands or Staffordshire (probably)

MediumLead-glazed earthenware (slipware)

DimensionsOH: 3 15/16"; D: 8 11/16"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1967-8

DescriptionDish: shallow cream and brown surface agateware dish with low foot ring and 3 milled bands of slip around rim. Covered with lead glaze except for most of the foot ring and base.Label TextThe border decoration on this cream and brown agateware plate was probably achieved by coatingthe surgace with slip and then cutting back the excess to leave narrow banding in cream-colored clay. Closely spaced ribbing on the bands may have been executed before the excess slip was scraped away. The plate was probably made in the Staffordshire region or elsewhere in the Midlands in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Fragments of similar slipware dishes have been excavated at the Wetherburn's Tavern and the Anthony Hay sites in Williamsburg, Virginia.ProvenanceEx coll: Lomax, #4-T (label on bottom.)