Lidded Vegetable Dish
MakerMade by
Joseph Clementson
(English, 1839 - 1864)
Original OwnerPossibly originally owned by
Anna Stark
(1785 - 1883)
Original OwnerPossibly originally owned by
Rebecca Stark Smith
(born 1812)
Date1846
MediumMold-formed ironstone with a blue-tinted glaze and underglaze cobalt blue decoration
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height including lid x width x depth): 8 x 13 3/8 x 9 1/8in. (20.3 x 34 x 23.2cm)
ClassificationsCeramics
Credit LineGift of Jessie A. Parsons
Object number1956.24.1a-b
DescriptionElongated, hexagonal, ironstone lidded vegetable dish with a transfer-printed underglaze cobalt blue pattern and border. The vegetable dish (.a) sits on a raised foot and has a wide, concave, rim where the domed lid (.b) sits. The vegetable dish also has two handles, part of the body of the vegetable dish, each shaped like a curvy arrow. The pattern, titled, "Tessino" and found on the bottom of the inside of the vegetable dish, shows a woman, girl, and boy on a high outcropping of land that overlooks a body of water and two structures. The woman and girl are standing up and looking to the left, where the boy sits on a rock. A small castle, possibly a game or toy, sits on the rock next to the boy. To the right, ruins and a tree sit on a hill that slopes down to water, possibly a lake. At left, in the distance, an Italian structure sits on the edge of the water. The border is found at the rim of the vegetable dish surrounding the pattern, as well as on the outside, the foot, and the lid of the vegetable dish, although in different proportions. The border consists of several lines of blue rectangles, with two smaller rectangles inside, lined up like bricks. The border is surrounded at one side, the outer edge of the rim, by a straight white vine with leaves periodically draped across, and with scrolls and leaves on the inside edge of the rim. Periodically, the entire border is interrupted by a cluster of blue flowers and some geometric shapes, possibly fruit, over the lines of rectangles. The lid has a hexagonal finial applied to the top, which is decorated with same rectangle border found elsewhere on the vegetable dish. Both the lid and the vegetable dish have light crazing over all surfaces. The vegetable dish has two chips on the underside of the rim, on opposite protruding corners.
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