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| Figure 52 Plate, 1942–1945. Whiteware. D. 9". Mark: variation of the Colonial Williamsburg Craft House mark illustrated in fig. 8. (Courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Collection.) This plate, reproduced from an eighteenth-century delft example, is listed in the Craft House price list only once (1942–1945) and does not appear in any of the catalogs. It is possible that it was produced for a very short time or that it was sold through other Colonial Williamsburg outlets; ointment pots such as the one illustrated in fig. 57, for example, were sold at the Galt Apothecary shop. The 1942–1945 price list for the Craft House catalog lists it as “Lambeth Delft Plate (blue & white)” with no mention of the “GR” cipher. The fragments illustrated in fig. 51 show related decoration, and the plates illustrated in figs. 54 and 55 are from the same mold. The original “GR” plate was made in England between 1714 and 1727 to honor King George I, who ruled Britain and the American colonies. |
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