Dish (1673): Art, History and Details

Dish (1673) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is WW (British).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Silver fulfilled a prominent role in projecting wealth, status, power, and ritual in British life during the 1600s and 1700s. Elaborate forms such this shallow dish not only represented wealth in its sheer silver weight but also provided royal and aristocratic owners a surface for displaying engraved coats of arms. For example, this dish is engraved with the arms of Sir Charles Holte (1648–1722), the 3rd Baronet of Warwickshire, and his wife Anne Clobery (1664–c. 1738) of Bradstone, Hampshire, along the southern coast of England.

Object facts

• Title: Dish
• Date: 1673
• Creator attribution: WW (British)
• Culture: England, London
• Type: Silver
• Technique: silver
• Dimensions: Overall: 5.9 x 36.7 cm (2 5/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1982.129

A detail from the museum

A scalloped rim and raised depictions of flowering poppies on this plate suggest that it was likely intended to be displayed on a sideboard rather than used as part of a table service.

Collection credit

The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review for 1982.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, no. 1 (January 1983): 3–55.
• Hawley, Henry. "An English Silver Dish." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 10 (December 1984): 334-40.

View the collection record

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