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Centerpiece (Grand platt menage, sweetmeat or pickle stand)
1775-1790
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire or Yorkshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (creamware)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
2000.0005 A- D
Credit Line/Donor
Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle
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Object Number
2000.0005 A- D
Object Name
Centerpiece (Grand platt menage, sweetmeat or pickle stand)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire or Yorkshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1775-1790
Subject(s)
- Mythological
- Classical
Materials
- Earthenware (creamware)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Molded
Dimensions (inches)
30 (H) x 14.25 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
76.2 (H) x 36.195 (Diam)
Measurement Notes
Measured in situ
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Cooper, Wendy A. 2002 An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum.
• Published: p. 97, pl. 12Article: Grigsby, Leslie B. 2005 British Earthenware and Porcelain in Eighteenth Century America, in Gray, Jonathan. 2005. Welsh Ceramics in Context. 2. 71-91.
• Published: p. 79, pl. 4.10Article: Grigsby, Leslie B. 10//2005 "English Creamware: A Colonial American Passion" (A Winterthur Primer. column: ). Antiques and Fine Art. (Autumn, 2005): 184-185.
• Published: p. 219, fig. 5Catalogue: Horne, Jonathan. A Collection of Early English Pottery (dealer's catalogue).
• Published: vol. XIV (1994), no. 400, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1775-85Article: Regnier, Suzanne Marie. 2004 Extreme Creamware. Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show (catalogue). 5-12.
• Published: p. 5Book: Rackham, Bernard & Read, Herbert. 1924 English Pottery: Its Development from Early Times to the end of the Eighteenth Century.
• Possibly published: pl. CVI, fig. 192 & p. 109, coll.: Mr. Henry C. EmbletonArticle: Crane, Paul. 2016 A question of attribution: a chinoiserie-moulded Worcester teapot exemplifying the moulded silver forms of the earliest English porcelain. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle. 27: 33-47.
• Multilevel shell epergne of somewhat similar form in Vincennes porcelain: p. 41, no. 14, c. 1745Book: Archer, Michael. 2013 Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
• Multilevel shell centerpiece in Irish delftware: p. 278, no. G.12, World's End Pottery (Henry, Mary and William Delamain, Samuel Wilkinson), c. 1755-65Article: Teller, Barbara Gorely. 10//1968 Ceramics in Providence, 1750-1800: An Inventory Study. Antiques. 570-77.
• Providence, RI, inventory reference to "Cream Coloured Piramid": p. 577, in discussion of Joseph Brown's 1786 inventory. Among objects in his best bedroom.Book Series: Big House / Back Lot: An Archaeological Study of the Nathaniel Russell House (Archaeological Contributions 25).
• Creamware fragments of the shell dish of a centerpiece excavated in Charleston, SC: pp. 193-4, fig. 76Book: Kybalova, Jana. European Creamware.
• Base of Italian multi-level creamware shell centerpiece: p. 179, no. 160, with relief shells on clumn and six shell attached dishes, Santini and Sinibaldi factory, Trieste, Italy, late 18th century.Book: Archer, Michael. 2013 Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum.
• Multilevel shell centerpiece in Irish delftware: p. 278, no. G.12, World's End Pottery (Henry, Mary and William Delamain, Samuel Wilkinson), c. 1755-65Article: Regnier, Suzanne Marie. 2004 Extreme Creamware. Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show (catalogue). 5-12.
Book: Karmason, Marilyn G. & Stacke, Joan B. 1980 Majolica: A Complete History and Illustrated Survey.
• (Later) majolica oyster stand of somewhat similar form: p. 45, Minton & Co. polychrome majolica stand featuring four tiers of shells topped by eel(?), c. 1856