Fragment of a maiolica dish
This sherd from a delicately painted polychrome vessel shows a stag surrounded by trees and other foliage. It was excavated from a 17th-century pit in North Street, Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2270
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryLugurian faience
- Common Name
- fragment of a maiolica dish
- Simple Name
- dish (sherd)
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production County
- Liguria
- Production Country
- Italy
- Production Year Low
- 1680
- Production Year High
- 1690
