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Plate

Date1742 (dated)

OriginEngland, Liverpool

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft / delftware)

DimensionsDiam: 8 5/8" OH: 1 1/4"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Antique Collectors' Guild

Object number1989-328

DescriptionPlate with incised foot ring. Bluish tin glaze decorated in blue with two oriental men in a Chinese landscape surrounded by a band of trellis diaper and flower sprays. On the rim, four repeats of floral sprays; red edge. On the reverse: the initials "I H M" and the date 1742; three stylized sprays around the bowl.Label TextThis is the only recorded dated plate of this pattern. Three other plates and two soup plates bearing this design (but without dates and in varying degrees of blue) are also in the Colonial Williamsburg collection (accessions 1972-348,1-2, I970-98, 1972-232, and 1972-430). The diameters of all five are all within an eighth of an inch of this one. The pattern is also found on a Liverpool-shaped water bottle in the collection (accession 1955-83). Fragments of seven plates in three different sizes with this decoration have been excavated in Williamsburg at Wetherburn's Tavern and the adjacent Charlton lot (9NA).Inscription(s)Initials I H M and the date 1742 on the base.Mark(s)NoProvenanceA. R. Broomer, Ltd, New York