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Plate

ca. 1760-1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Delftfield Pottery (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Glasgow (made)

Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted in yellow, red, green, violet, blue and manganese-purple with flowers, a rock. On the flange the crest of Murray of Polmaise, a mermaid holding a mirror and combing her tresses in blue.
Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white, pooling on the flange at the back.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)

Object details

Categories
Delftware
Earthenware
Ceramics
Scotland
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin-Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, attributed to the Delftfield Pottery, Glasgow, ca. 1760-1770.
Physical description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware, painted in yellow, red, green, violet, blue and manganese-purple with flowers, a rock. On the flange the crest of Murray of Polmaise, a mermaid holding a mirror and combing her tresses in blue.
Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white, pooling on the flange at the back.
Shape: Shape M. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.2cm
Diameter: 9 1/8 ins
Object history
Professor F.H. Garner Bequest, 1965.
Exhibited: Rijksmuseum, No: 138.
Production
These plates have traditionally been attributed to Delftfield on the basis of the crest, which has been identified as that of Murray of Polmaise. However, the archaeological evidence from the factory site does not support this attribution; and in 2012 it was suggested that the crest had been wrongly identified as that of the Murray of Polmaise family (see References). It was further noted that this and other pieces attributed to Delftfield may have been made at World's End Pottery, Dublin.
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8
  • Archer, 1966, p.18, Pl: 3.
  • Garner and Archer, p.76, Pl: 134.B.
  • Compare Haggarty, George R., and Gray, James A. 'Glasgow and the Delftfield pottery'. English Ceramic Circle Transactions. Volume 23, 2012, pp. 105-118, pls. 6-7
  • Young, Hilary, 'The Birth of the Ceramic Designer' in Walford, Tom and Hilary Young British Ceramic Design, 1600-2002: Papers presented at the colloquium celebrating the 75th anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle, 1927-2002. 2003, p. 16, fig. 2
Other number
B163. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.103-1965

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Record createdNovember 24, 1999
Record URL
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