Soup Plate

Most English delft plates with the bracket and squirrel motif are blue and white, not polychrome. The plate here relates somewhat to the Japanese Kakiemon designs as copied at the Meissen porcelain manufactory and eventually on English porcelain. It also shows the influence of the Chinese blue and white designs usually adapted to or copied on this ware. See CWF accession 1978-216 for an example copied closely from Chinese porcelain examples.

A plate with a blue and white version of this pattern was excavated in Williamsburg at the James Geddy Workshop and Kitchen (19BB.1l70), and fragments with a similar design have been excavated at the William Finnie House (2BA.0824), southwest of the Chiswell-Bucktrout House (2GA.0043), and at Wetherburn's Tavern (9NA). A shard with a somewhat similar squirrel was excavated at Limekiln Lane in Bristol.
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