dinner plate
Summary
Public: Two circular dinner plates with six-lobed wavy rim. Made of cream coloured earthenware and transfer-printed in overglaze in black with a central rural landscape. The rim is printed with six festoons of fruit and flowers suspended from a border band. Private: Circular dinner plate with deep well, six-lobed wavy 'Royal' rim and no footring. Transfer-printed in overglaze black with central rural landscape, comprising family group of peasants before small hut and gnarled tree on riverbank in foreground to right, three fishermen draggging in nets from water in foreground to left, windmill in centre background. Rim printed with six festoons of fruit and flowers, suspended from painted black enamel border band. Cream coloured earthenware body with fine glaze, slightly greenish on one plate.
Object Name
dinner plate
Date Created
c 1780=1800
Dimensions
plate: 2.3cm
plate: 2.7cm
accession number
1923.783/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Staffordshire
Medium
Credit
Bequeathed by Thomas Tylston Greg
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