NML home > Walker Art Gallery > Collections > Craft and Design > Every home should have one > Dessert > Wooden roundels

Our venues

World Museum Liverpool
Walker Art Gallery
Merseyside Maritime Museum
International Slavery Museum
National Conservation Centre
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Sudley House
Museum of Liverpool

Skip page navigation

Craft and Design gallery

Introduction
Every home should have one
How did they do that?
Putting on the style

Wooden roundels

A photograph of an ornately patterned roundel that also has some writing on it as well.

About 1600

These were placed face down on the table and served as plates for eating sweetmeats and fruit. Then you turned your plate over and read out whatever was written on it.

Given by Joseph Mayer, 1867.