Deep dish of red earthenware (redware) with a brownish-orange lead-based glaze, the interior with a pattern of individual, incised scrolls and squiggly lines around the border, in the middle a large impressed leaf motif surrounded by four other impressed leaves; below the center leaf the date "1764" and above the initials "B C."

Dish

Staffordshire

1764

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On small base decorated with green leaves stands the figure of Harlequin against a tree stump wearing turquoise knee breeches with lilac florettes and a red tunic with gilt banding, incised scroll design, and yellow bows down the front over a white shirt with ruffled collar and cuffs, on his head rests a gilt-edged tricorn hat with white bow, his shoes are yellow with lilac florettes, under his right arm he holds a lute, his left arm raises a tall pass glass to his mouth
This teardrop-shaped custard cup or dessert pot is made from a fine sheet of moulded yellow jasper which has been decorated with a crenellated edge and the ornamentation of a fine white jasper lattice or trellis design. It was made between 1790 and 1800.
Large, heavy, round bowl of reddish brown stoneware, with flat bottom and covered with a creamy, opaque glaze, the rim brown, the body of the bowl with a pattern of two rows of greenish-gray rectangles, each tilted and meeting at opposite corners to form diamond patterns in between.