Charger
c. 1750
2 in. x 11 1/2 in. x 11 1/2 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection.
Accession Number:
1959.172
An English earthenware charger in the style commonly refered to as delftware because it has a tin-oxide glaze. This charger is decorated with hand-painted bands of purple and yellow enclosing a portrait of King William of Orange. The initials K W flank the portrait.