Plate with sgraffito decoration
Many plates were made in the potteries of South Somerset. They were often decorated by scratching a pattern into the wet slip before firing, this is called sgraffito decoration. This plate was discovered during archaeological excavations in Exeter.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/2882
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Material
- potterySouth Somerset ware
- Common Name
- plate with sgraffito decoration
- Simple Name
- plate
- Period Classification
- Post Medieval (1500-1750)
- Production County
- Somerset
- Production Year Low
- 1670
- Production Year High
- 1710