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Dessert dish with vine decoration
Production: William Ridgway & Co (Perhaps)
Mustard yellow, relief moulded, smear-glazed stoneware.
Press-moulded dessert dish, egg-shaped with indented edge and wide sloping rim, standing on an oval footring. The wider end of the dish extends to form a handle, moulded in the form of a stylised shell emerging from scrolled leaves. The well is decorated with vine leaves laid over each other over a net background. On the rim, a continuous spray of fruiting vine winds over a rectangular trellis, interrupted by the handle. The underside, inside the foot-ring, is flat and smear-glazed.
Given by Mrs Joan Eve
Height: 4.8 cm
Length: 25.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1992) by Eve, Joan
19th Century, Mid#
Circa
1830
CE
-
1850
CE
Relief moulded, smear-glazed stoneware was a popular material for domestic items in the mid 19th century The surface makes the most of the way that colour-stained clays show off crisply-moulded ornament, whilst the stoneware would be durable in an everyday setting. There are several examples in the Fitzwilliam Collection, including jugs and a candlestick.. The design of this dish suggests it was made in the 1830s or 40s.
William Ridgway & Co. (from 1845, Ridgway and Abington) was a significant producer of moulded, smear-glazed products, but the dish is unmarked and may equally have been made by another pottery, such as Minton, Charles Meigh or William Brownlow.
Decoration composed of glaze
Press-moulding
: Relief moulded, smear-glazed stoneware
Smear-glazing
Accession number: C.58-1992
Primary reference Number: 75578
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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