Plate
1760-80
1 in. x 9 7/8 in. x 7 1/2 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
porcelain
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.288
An English earthenware tray decorated with a blue oriental motif. The rim has a crude cross-hatched band.
Octagonal, oblong form with cobalt blue decoration of Chinese scene of bridge, pagoda, trees and water on white background; the cavetto with a repeat pattern of four diamonds; rim border with smaller version of the same pattern. Cobalt has run in the firing.
Condition: Tiny rim chip at corner