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Dish (Lot's Wife dish)
Remember Lot's Wife
Samuel Malkin
1726
Category
Ceramics
Creator/Artist/Maker
Samuel Malkin (Maker)
Place of Origin
Burslem; Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
2010.0004.001
Credit Line/Donor
Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle
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Object Number
2010.0004.001
Object Name
Dish (Lot's Wife dish)
Title
Remember Lot's Wife
Category
Ceramics
Creator (Role)
Samuel Malkin (Maker)
Place of Origin
Burslem; Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1726
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Mark
Location: Front
Inscription: Relief "SM"
Type: Inscription
Location: Front
Inscription: Relief "Remember/Lot[s] Wife/Luke 17:32/1726"
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Biblical quotations
- Biblical scene
- Religion associated
- Religious imagery
- American ownership history (foreign manuf)
- Bible
Materials
- Earthenware (slipware, buff-bodied)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Slip decorated
- Impressed
Dimensions (inches)
2.559 (H) x 13.819 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
6.5 (H) x 35.1 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Chapter: Grigsby, Leslie B. English Slipware in Colonial America. Book: Dunsmore, Amanda. 2011 This Blessed Pot, This Earth: English Pottery Studies in Honour of Jonathan Horne. 150-158.
• Published on p. 154, fig. 3.Book: Cooper, Wendy A. & Minardi, Lisa. Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850.
• Published: pp. 19 and 233, fig. 1.26.Catalogue: Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown PA (sales cat.).
• Sold at auction: April 23-24, 2010, lot 178 (photocopy in Registrar's files)Book: Grigsby, Leslie B. 2000 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware.
• Identification of several closely related dishes plus illustration of fragment found at Samuel Malkin's Burslem factory waste site: vol. 1, pp. 70-71, no. S13Book: Grigsby, Leslie B. 1993 English Slip-Decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg.
• Dish probably from same mold, with different slip details: pp. 40 and 42, fig. 48-49Article: Orr, David. 2003 Samuel Malkin in Philadelphia: A Remarkable Slipware Assemblage. Ceramics in America. 252-55.
• "SM" dishes excavated in Philadelphia: p. 253, figs. 5-6, two slipware sunface dishes; for examples possibly by other potters, see pp. 254-55, figs. 7-9Book: Barker, David & Crompton, Steve. Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery.
• Dish probably from same mold, with different slip details and excavated Malkin site fragments: pp. 135-36Book: Halfpenny, Patricia A. & Williams, Peter. 2000 A Passion for Pottery: Further Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection.
• Dish probably from same mold, but with upper portion having major restoration: p. 126