Deep dish or soup bowl
Burslem, Staffordshire, England
1825-1829
Maker
Joseph Stubbs (working 1790-1829)
Measurements
1-1/2 in x 9-7/8 in (dia)
Materials
Transfer-printed white earthenware
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.771
Inscription
“Fair Mount / near / Philadelphia” is printed onto the underside of the rim. “STUBBS” is impressed into the outside bottom of the bowl.
Condition Notes
The dish has a crack in the rim that ends at the edge in a chip.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The image printed onto this deep dish or soup bowl was taken from a Thomas Birch engraving of 1824 entitled “View of the Dam and Water Works at Fair Mount, Philadelphia.” The 1815 Fairmount Waterworks was well-known and a popular tourist destination, making it an obvious candidate for Staffordshire potters.
Potter Joseph Stubbs (d. 1836) was known for his ornately flowered rim designs with three or four eagles posed with out-swept wings.
