Plate
1826-38
10 1/2 in. x 10 1/2 in. x 1 1/4 in.
Thomas, John & Joseph Mayer,
British,
(1843–1855)
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:
1959.120
An English, earthenware plate with a red transfer-print decoration showing a biblical scene, the Tomb of Absalom. The plate has a scalloped rim.
Condition: Crack in rim 2 in., staining
Red transfer-printed decoration of seated figures at a tomb with distant buildings and mountains, other figures under a palm tree in well; rim and cavetto with transfer-printed decoration of floral medallions with botanical geometric border; scalloped edge.