Plaque
Dixon Phillips and Co.
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1850
Materials
Earthenware, Lustreware, lead-glaze
Measurements
195 x 220 x 35 mm
Place of origin
Sunderland
Collection
Greys Court, Oxfordshire
NT 196841.1
Summary
Plaque, lead-glazed earthenware. Decorated with marbled pink border and rim in bronze iridescent lusterware glaze. Centre of plaque with a transfer-printed religious motto within black wreath of foliage and flowers. Dixon, Phillips & Co., Garrison Pottery, Sunderland, c.1850. The quoted proverb was popularised by the nineteenth-century English preacher Charles Spurgeon. "The loss of gold is great The loss of health is more. . But losing Christ is such a loss As no man can restore".
Provenance
Assigned from the Estate of Lady Elizabeth Brunner to the National Trust, 2022.
Makers and roles
Dixon Phillips and Co., maker Garrison Pottery, maker