Dish

Dateca. 1760

Maker Delftfield Pottery

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft)

DimensionsD: 14 1/2"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1990-151

DescriptionLarge dish with wide rim and incised foot ring. Bluish tin glaze decorated in blue with a wide band on the rim in a highly stylized pattern incorporating amoeba-shaped or bead-shaped scrolls, perhaps representing leaves, oblong flower heads with projecting irregular lines, and many dots. Rim pattern repeated in the center within a large blue circle.Label TextSeveral fragments with this pattern have been excavated on the site of the Delftfield pottery in Glasgow, which suggests the attribution here. This dish may represent one of the "great middle Dishes" or "main middle [Dishes]" shipped from Delftfield to Maryland in 1757. Fragments of dishes, plates, and a coffee cup with this pattern have been excavated on several sites in Williamsburg, including the Thomas Everard House (29FB.OOO8t), the Jones cellar at the Public Hospital (4CB), and Wetherburn's Tavern (9NA). For another plate made at Delftfield, see CWF accession 1951-131, and for a brick in the same pattern, see 1990-229.Inscription(s)NoMark(s)NoProvenanceJonathan Horne