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Merryman Plate
Production: Unidentified (Uncertain)
Tin-glazed earthenware 'Merryman Plate', painted in blue with an inscription surrounded by winged deer's heads, swags and scrollings Cs.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. There is a distinct peg mark and two smaller marks on the back of the rim. Octagonal with incurved edges, sloping sides and shallow circular well. Decorated in the centre with the inscription '2/Let him doe/all what he kan', with above, a crown, below, a winged cherub's head flanked by C-scrolls with three dependant tassels, and on each side, a winged deer's head facing outwards with a C-scroll below, all enclosed by two narrow concentric circles round the edge of the well.
History note: John Hext, Exeter; his wife, Jean M. Hext.
Bequeathed by Mrs Jean M. Hext
Height: 2.3 cm
Width: 19.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2001) by Hext, Jean M.
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Circa
1690
-
Circa
1700
Accessioned as English, but probably Dutch
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( cobalt-blue)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue
Inscription present: a rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.9-2001
Primary reference Number: 29490
Entry form number: 153
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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