Dish
1660-1690 (made)
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| Place of origin |
This lobed dish was pressed over a negative mould to give it its shape. It might have been made in Delft, the most prolific and celebrated production centre for ceramics in the Netherlands. However, the method of decoration is very close to that used by Dutch tile-makers in Rotterdam and Friesland and it is possible that they also produced this dish. They potter first painted the central decoration in blue, which they then covered with a paper or sheet-metal stencil. They then sprinkled on the purple pigments by agitating a brush dipped in manganese pigment with a knife, causing the paint to cover the rest of the surface with a random pattern of small spats.
The shape of the dish was very popular in silver during the seventeenth century.
The shape of the dish was very popular in silver during the seventeenth century.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware with painted and sprinkled decoration |
| Brief description | Moulded lobed dish on footrim, tin-glazed earthenware with prinkled manganese and blue painted landscape decoration, Netherlands, probably Rotterdam or Delft, 1670-90 |
| Physical description | Moulded lobed dish on footrim, painted in blue with landscape and with manganese sprinkled decoration. |
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| Gallery label | Dish
made Delft, Netherlands 1675-1700
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted and spunged decoration
C.134-1926(16/07/2008) |
| Credit line | Given by Mrs Julius Spier |
| Production | The decoration of this dish, with its sprinkled manganese border around a central blue-painted scene, is very close to that on Dutch tiles made in Rotterdam and also in Friesland. |
| Summary | This lobed dish was pressed over a negative mould to give it its shape. It might have been made in Delft, the most prolific and celebrated production centre for ceramics in the Netherlands. However, the method of decoration is very close to that used by Dutch tile-makers in Rotterdam and Friesland and it is possible that they also produced this dish. They potter first painted the central decoration in blue, which they then covered with a paper or sheet-metal stencil. They then sprinkled on the purple pigments by agitating a brush dipped in manganese pigment with a knife, causing the paint to cover the rest of the surface with a random pattern of small spats. The shape of the dish was very popular in silver during the seventeenth century. |
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| Accession number | C.134-1926 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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