Dish; oblong dish with alternating straight and scalloped edges; white bodied earthen-ware with transfer-printed and overglaze enamel flora designs; central bouquet in a basket; brown ground design with colored florals around borders; impressed relief-molded flowers at long ends; broken and repaired; underside marked "MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CHINA" with crown in black and impressed "MASON'S PATENT IRONSTONE CP." length 37 centimeters, width 18.5 centimeters, height 4.4 centimeters. Materials, techniques: White-bodied earthenware, press-molded; design is transfer printed and overglaze enamels.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Verbatim coll. place:
England, Staffordshire, Mason Works
Collector:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection date:
1975
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Earthenware
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Comment:
Context of use: Fruit dish, part of a dessert service; circa 1815-1820. "The relief molded motifs are rare" (Godden, pl. 52).