Collection Highlights
The Intelligence Office
1849
1959.46
Oil on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Charger
Object name
Charger
Date
1702-1715
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Overall: 2 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. ( 6.4 x 34.9 cm )
Description
Tin-glazed earthenware charger with Queen Anne sitting between trees wearing a crown and holding an orb and sceptre and flanked by initials "AR" with blue and yellow lines and blue dashes on rim painted and sponged in blue, yellow, and green on white ground; charger has buff-colored earthenware body with foot rim with opaque white tin-glaze on obverse; clear greenish-yellow lead glaze on reverse; three stilt marks on obverse; string tied around foot ring.
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number
1952.58
Marks
printed: tag on base; "FROM/ STONER & EVANS/ 3, KING ST.,/ St. James' Sq., S.W./ Guaranteed Genuine"
painted: on obverse; "AR"
Gallery Label
Anne Stuart, Queen of England, ruled from 1702 - 1714.
According to Michael Archer, the charger was