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Plate
English (Staffordshire or Yorkshire) and Dutch
about 1780–90
Object Place: Europe, England, Staffordshire
Medium/Technique
Cream-colored earthenware; enamel decoration added in the Netherlands
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Wales
Accession Number95.311
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionDecorated in rich red, green, and yellow enamel colors. Two men with wigs; behind them a servant with horses. The Prodigal Son taking leave from his father, from a series of six dishes llustrating the biblical story of the Prodigal
Son.
Son.
Marks
Mark: D (impressed).
Inscriptions"ZYN AFSHEID NEEMAN" on rim in bottom center
ProvenanceH. Briggs; by 1895, George Washington Wales, Boston.