Tin-glazed earthenware dish
This dish was excavated from a pit in Paul Street, Exeter. It matches very closely a number of dishes excavated in the kiln sites at Montelupo a small town near Florence, and was almost certainly made there. It is decorated with foliage in cobalt blue in the alla porcellana style.
The Exeter: a Place in Time (EAPIT) project has recently carried out research on this dish. Italian tin-glazed pottery found at several sites in Exeter were analysed for the concentrations of their chemical elements by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP) to try to determine their place of production. Such provenance studies require the comparison of analyses from the ‘test’ items against databases of analyses of material from the presumed sources, such as wasters or biscuit wares from known and dated kiln sites. The research confirmed that this dish was made in Montelupo.
The Exeter: a Place in Time (EAPIT) project has recently carried out research on this dish. Italian tin-glazed pottery found at several sites in Exeter were analysed for the concentrations of their chemical elements by inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP) to try to determine their place of production. Such provenance studies require the comparison of analyses from the ‘test’ items against databases of analyses of material from the presumed sources, such as wasters or biscuit wares from known and dated kiln sites. The research confirmed that this dish was made in Montelupo.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 120/2000/10
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryMontelupo tin-glazed earthenware
- Common Name
- tin-glazed earthenware dish
- Simple Name
- dish
- Period Classification
- Tudor (1500-1603)
- Production Year Low
- 1500
- Production Year High
- 1520
