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Date1750-1760
Terms
- Plates
- Ceramic
- Staffordshire
Dimensions12.69 cm (5 in.)
MarkingsLabel: "Deacon William Parkman/ 1723-1832./ Presented by/ Sarah E.A. Richardson."
Credit LineGift of Sarah A. Richardson
Object numberC200
DescriptionStoneware, salt-glazed. Scalloped edge with engine-turned border in a design similar to that found on silver of the period. Enamelled over the glaze in colors, red and green, in a pictorial design showing a man on a ladder picking fruit (apples?) from a tree and throwing it into the apron of a girl standing below. May be a crude copy of Lancret's "Cherry Pickers", a design occasionally found on Chinese Lowestoft and evidently popular with painters on ceramics in the last half of the 18th century. Shallow section, no foot.
