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Plate (Dinner plate)
Indeo Pottery, Bovey Tracey, Jean Baptiste Pillement
1790-1800
Category
Ceramics
Creator/Artist/Maker
Indeo Pottery, Bovey Tracey (Maker)
Place of Origin
Bovey Tracey; Devon; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (pearlware)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
2002.0033.001
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Lindsay Grigsby
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Object Number
2002.0033.001
Object Name
Plate (Dinner plate)
Category
Ceramics
Creator (Role)
Indeo Pottery, Bovey Tracey (Maker); Jean Baptiste Pillement (Inspiration for design)
Place of Origin
Bovey Tracey; Devon; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1790-1800
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Mark
Location: Underside
Inscription: Impressed "Jndeo"
Mark/Signature: Yes
Subject(s)
- Ladies Amusement
Materials
- Earthenware (pearlware)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Printed
Dimensions (inches)
1.181 (H) x 9.14 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
3 (H) x 23.216 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Godden, Geoffrey A. 1966 An Illustrated Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain.
• Nearly identical plate: p. 185, no. 322, c. 1780Book: Sayer, Robert & Pillement, Jean Baptiste. 1959 Ladies Amusement or Whole Art of Japanning Made Easy (orig. c. 1760).
• Jean Pillemont design inspiring plate decoration: pl. 54Book: Adams, Brian & Thomas, Anthony. 1996 A Potwork in Devonshire: The History & Products of the Bovey Tracey Potteries 1750-1836.
• Plates with same print in greenish black with different border and example much like Winterthur's: p. 82, noting Ladies Amusement pattern by Jean Pillemont in green-black. One with "Jndeo" mark impressed. c. 1790-80.Article: Stretton, Norman. 1972 The Indeo Pottery at Bovey Tracey. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle. 8, pt 2: 124-136.
• Similar mark and central reserve prints on plates: pls 89a&b, 90a&b