A documentary Liverpool delftware plate dated 1750

A documentary Liverpool delftware plate dated 1750, painted in blue with an insect around a tall peony spray and other Oriental flowers, the rim with panels of tied scrolls reserved on a hatched diaper band, the reverse inscribed 'Timothy Hoyle of Stublee in Rochdale Parish 1750', broken and restuck, 22.3cm.

Provenance: the Liane Richards Collection.

Exhibited: the English Ceramic Circle, 2009.

The Timothy Hoyle in question seems likely to have been a yeoman, living in the Stublee (or Lee) area of Rochdale, near Newchurch. He married Elizabeth Topper on 29th November 1749, and the University of Manchester Library holds several records relating to financial transactions and the purchase of a pew in the chapel of Newchurch.