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Shell dish

(Staffordshire, England, active 1759–present)
about 1800
Object PlaceEngland
Medium/TechniqueEarthenware, transfer printed blue decoration
DimensionsOverall: 2.5 × 12.7 × 12.4 cm (1 × 5 × 4 7/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Thomas O. Richardson
Accession number25.361
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
InscriptionsGummed label "MFA [?] Richardson 737.07" Oval gummed label with serrated edge: "2114/ C/ -/ 7 [?]/ a"
ProvenanceBy 1907, Mrs. Thomas O. Richardson; 1925, bequest of Mrs. T. O. Richardson to the MFA.


about 1775
1825–33
1825–33
about 1770-1790
about 1765
about 1890
about 1770–80
about 1820
about 1800