Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1796
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
330 x 270 mm
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Scotney Castle, Kent
NT 790380
Summary
An oval gilt decorated dish with scenic panels, Hussey crest and initials. A note to the reverse.
Marks and inscriptions
'This dish, lately the property of Anna Maria / Hussey, da. of Dr. Thomas John Hussey, [ampersand] widow / of Dr Edwd Law Hussey of 24 Winchester Road / Oxford, was given to me by her desire after / her death on 6 nov 1916. It may have formed / part of a wedding present given to her grand- / -father John Hussey on his marriage to Catherine / Jennings in 1796. The date of the china agrees with this, and it bears the monogram / J.C.H. / E.W. Hussey Dec. 1916'