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D ELF TWARE Dining and Related Wares 
              Dishes and Plates 
Royal, Martial, and Other Historical Figures 
and Events 
D54. PLATE 
Possibly Liverpool 
Dated 1746 
H.: 1" (2.5 cm); Diam.: 8 318" (21.3 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained pale buff. 
TIN GLAZE: Pale bluish white. 
SHAPE: Molded. Shape M 
DECORATION: Painted, Equestrian 
figure of Duke of Cumberland holding 
baton. Inscribed "1746/Duke William/ 
for Ever" 
1. For anti-Jacobite delltware, see 
Lipski and Archer, Dated l'elltware, 
nos, 496, 1115, 
2. For delitware, see Archer, V&A, 
no. 1.26 (punch bowl); 1 ipski and 
Archer, I)ated IDelftware, no. 828 
mnug): Sot lhebv's (), June 6, 1989, 
lot 195 (plate). Iot- crealwat e and 
porcelain figures, see Grigsby. 
Weldon, ios. 262. 263. 
:3. lipski and Archer, Dated l)elft- 
wvare. nos. 498A  49811 (nonligural): 
Ra.y. Warien, pp. 117, 125, no. 29, 
pl.  I lobsont,  rlitst',h  Museum, 
no. 1134; Sotheby's (I), Lipski sale, 
IDecembn r 6, 198:3, lot 678. For an 
undated -Duke William For Evetr" 
plate, see AUStin, Itelft. no. 193. 
The Jacobite rebellion of 1745 inspired the production of numerous ceram-
ics depicting themes in support of the Jacobites (see no. D44) or the Loyalists
who opposed them (see no. D313).1 The plate shown here fits into the latter
group and depicts William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), who 
was George II's third son. Cumberland led the British army to defeat the
Scots 
at Culloden, resulting in the production of many ceramic pieces specifically
relating to him., 
   The image on the Longridge plate probably derives from a print and appears
to be unique. Two nonfigural plates bear similar inscriptions, and three
proba- 
bly Bristol plates nearly identical to one another depict Cumberland on a
walking horse within a border inscribed "God save ye Duke of Cumberland:
Remember ye fight of Cullodon."I The Longridge plate has no decisive
diagnos- 
tic features but in shape and glaze color is consistent with Liverpool wares.
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