Cheese dish

Item Information

Title:
Cheese dish
Description:
Pearlware bowl of boat shape with rolled-over ends on oval-based pedestal foot. Decorated with underglaze-blue transfer-print scenes of "Dr. Syntax", with fleur-de-lys on scroll ends.
Creator:
Clews, James & Ralph
Date:
1817–1834
Format:
Objects/Artifacts
Genre:
glazing (coating process)
molding (forming)
pearlware
transfer printing
tin (metal)
cheese dishes
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
Digitized Museum Collections
Subjects:
Empire (style)
fleur-de-lis (motif)
Pearlware
Molded
Transfer Printed
Tin Glazed
Empire
Fleur-de-Lis
Syntax, Dr.
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Essex
Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.)
Extent:
6.25 in. x 15.5 in. (H x W)
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/8381
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
Accession #:
1991.605
Identifier:
8381