Dish Item Number: Ch64 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Circular grey-white earthenware dish, with a flat base. Dish has deep curving sides and a wide flat rim, with a red edge. Inside the bowl the decoration shows a green wreath with the date "1707" inside it. On the rim are four alternating blue and blue-green trees between two springing yellow rabbits and two foxes.
History Of Use
Unlike other dishes believed to be from the Odler workshop, the tin glaze on this dish is very thin allowing the pink hue of the fired clay to show through. This change in technique could have been due to a temporary scarcity of tin oxide rather than a conscious change in production methods. There are only a few of these in existence. It is really only the style of decoration on this dish that suggests it was produced at the Odler workshop.
Cultural Context
functional; decorative
Specific Techniques
tin-glazed
Item History
- Made in Dechtice, Slovakia ? during 1707
- Owned by Walter C. Koerner before December 2, 1988
- Received from Walter C. Koerner (Donor) on December 2, 1988
What
Who
- Culture
- Slavic
- Previous Owner
- Walter C. Koerner
- Received from
- Walter C. Koerner (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Dechtice, Slovakia ?
When
- Creation Date
- during 1707
- Ownership Date
- before December 2, 1988
- Acquisition Date
- on December 2, 1988
Other
- Item Classes
- ceramics; earthenware; tin-glaze
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 1417/0020