Dish drainer
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
520 mm (Length)370 mm (W)
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Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1127169.2.2
Summary
Draining platter for a meat dish, pierced with holes to act as a drainer, part of a Staffordshire crested dinner service, white earthenware (ironstone), underglaze transfer-printed in cobalt blue with the 'Tendril" pattern of scrolled stems with leaves and flowers, central reserve with a ducal coronet above a 'serpent nowed proper' crest, framed with the motto 'Cavendo Tutus' (Safe through caution) for the Cavendishes, Dukes of Devonshire, brown line rims, no backstamp; attributed to Benjamin Adams proprietor, Greengates Pottery, Tunstall, Staffordshire, circa 1815-26 (Information supplied by Richard Halliday, 2014) Probably ordered by William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), the Bachelor Duke, who inherited his title and estates in 1811.
Marks and inscriptions
Cavendo Tutus (and coronet and serpent on each piece)