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Merryman Plate
Pottery: Unidentified
Tin-glazed earthenware 'Merryman Plate', painted in blue with an inscription surrounded by a crown, winged deer's heads, and scrollings Cs.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. On the back there is a fault in the glaze, and three peg marks. Octagonal with incurved edges, sloping sides, and shallow circular well. Decorated in the centre with the inscription '5/but if his/wijfe doth frowne', with above, a crown, below, a winged cherub's head flanked by C-scrolls with three pendant 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
Diameter: 19.3 cm
Height: 2.4 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 ( blue)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue
Accession number: C.10-2001
Primary reference Number: 29491
Entry form number: 153
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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