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Dish

Dateca. 1750

OriginEngland, Bristol

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft / delftware)

DimensionsOH: 1 13/16"; OD: 13 3/8".

Credit LineGift of Anthony W. Butera Jr. in honor of Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter

Object number2025-22

DescriptionDish: large circular tin-glazed earthenware dish with broad rim and curved cavetto; short footring. Decorated in blue on the rim with four evenly spaced lotus flowers projecting from leafy mounds, each with leafy flowering vines trailing from the lower lotus petals; the well of the dish painted with a central lotus flower protruding from three veined leaves and flanked by a flowering bamboo stalk on the left and a stylized willow tree on the right; the reverse of the dish painted with eight alternating X’s and pairs of slash marks || (four of each design motif).Label TextThis tin-glazed earthenware dish directly parallels archaeological fragments painted with the same motif that were recovered from the Charlton Coffeehouse site in Williamsburg, Virginia.ProvenanceBefore September 2023, unknown. With Haydn Hansell of Juno Antiques (London and Cambridge, England) until September 26, 2023, when it was acquired by the donor Anthony Butera (New York) who subsequently gave it to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA) in March 2025, where it remains to the present.