Footed Dish

Germany

Third quarter of the 19th century

  • Titles Footed Dish (Descriptive)
  • Medium cast iron
  • Dimensions 5 1/2 × 9 11/16 in. (13.9 × 24.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1986.298.8
  • Work Type footed dish
  • Classification Containers

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Bust front.
Round, shallow, pearlware dish with scalloped edges, the well and sides of the dish painted with the scene of a seated nude female looking to her left, she holds a pink cloak or drapery in both hands around her back and a white cloth is draped over her lap, in front of her is a large brown urn for carrying water, she sits in a landscape with leafy green water foliage and blue sky behind her.
Large urn of solid white jasper with green jasper dip and applied white relief decoration, resting on solid white plinth decorated with a border of delicate lotus motifs, on round foot with a pattern of gadrooning around the edge, the urn's lower body with a pattern of foliate motifs and above a white band figures from "Blind Man's Bluff", with two fluted and extended handles and a band of palmettes on the shoulder, the conforming cover is a facsimile.
Small oval medallion of white jasperware with black jasper relief of an enslaved African man wearing only a loin cloth, kneeling and in shackles, with his hands grasped together, around him the inscription AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER?