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Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish)
1740-1765
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Museum Object Number
1958.0889
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Object Number
1958.0889
Object Name
Dish (Sweetmeat or pickle dish)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1740-1765
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Techniques
- Molded
Dimensions (inches)
0.75 (H) x 3.75 (W) x 4.25 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
1.91 (H) x 9.525 (W) x 10.8 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Grigsby, Leslie B. 1990 The Henry H. Weldon Collection: English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800.
• Very similarly modeled example: c. 1765 (see Notes for this Winterthur record.)Book: Luxmoore, Chas. F. C. 1924 English Saltglazed Earthenware.
• Block for heart-shaped dish with similar relief decoration: pl. 48Manuscript: Mountford, Arnold R. Thomas Wedgwood, John Wedgwood, and Jonah Malkin - Potters of Burslem (1972 MA Thesis).
• Period references to "hearts": appendix III, p. 64; appendix IV, pp. 9 & 16 (see Notes for this Winterthur record.)Book: Mountford, Arnold R. 1971 The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-Glazed Stoneware.
• 1744-dated heart-shaped alabaster mold for pickle tray: fig. 31