Delftware plate
This plate was made in Bristol in the early 1660s. Its decoration, with painted standing Chinese figures and foliage, imitates Chinese porcelain made around this time. It was excavated from a household rubbish pit in Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2103
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potteryBristol tin-glazed earthenware
- Common Name
- delftware plate
- Simple Name
- plate
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Year Low
- 1660
- Production Year High
- 1665
