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Dish

Dish

1673
(British)
England, London, 17th century
silver
Overall: 5.9 x 36.7 cm (2 5/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1982.129
Location: 203A British Painting and Decorative Arts

Did You Know?

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.

Description

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.
  • ?-1938
    Clobery, Holte, Bracebridge families, by descent
    1938
    (Sotheby's, June 23, 1938, no. 133, sold to unknown owner)
    1968
    (Sotheby's, July 4, 1968, no. 75)
    (Spink & Son, London)
    1970-1979
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    (Brand Inglis, London)
  • Hawley, Henry. "An English Silver Dish." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 10 (December 1984): 334-40. Mentioned: pp. 334-40; reproduced: pp. 335-6 25159889
  • British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
    The Year in Review for 1982. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 6, 1983).
    No legacy exhibitions
  • {{cite web|title=Dish|url=false|author=WW|year=1673|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1982.129