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Plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1740-1760

GUSN

GUSN-2159

Description

Creamware, Wheildon-style (aka tortoiseshell ware), molded with scalloped and gadrooned edge; mottled brown glaze with green and blue splashes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

plates (dishes)
creamware
glazing (coating)
lead (metal)
molding (forming)
tin (metal)
Creamware
Tin Glazed
Molded
PLATE

Inscription

Paper store label on reverse: ""Roland B. Hammond/No. Andover, Mass./Antiques/532117/$20"".

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

9.5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.169

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