Plate

ca. 1770-1776 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tin-glazed, painted in colours, with pierced basketwork border, the centre painted with a bunch of flowers

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed painted in colours
Brief description
Plate with pierced basketwork border, probably by Hannong's pottery factory, made in Strasbourg, about 1770-1776
Physical description
Tin-glazed, painted in colours, with pierced basketwork border, the centre painted with a bunch of flowers
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Object history
Acquisition type: Bequest
Production
Acquired as Strasbourg; in 1931 Hans Haug, Director of the Strasbourg Museum, suggested this was probably Lorraine; for similarly decorated objects attributed to Strasbourg see Dorothée Guillemé Brulon, Strasbourg & Niderviller - Sources et rayonnement, Histoire de la Faïence Francaise, Paris, 1999, p. 42 (dated c. 1770-5), and Historiches Museum, Basel, Strassburger Keramik, 1986, cat. 148-54 (dated c. 1773/4-6).
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.229-1951

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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