Child's plate
A. E. Gray & Co. Ltd
Category
Household and miscellaneous
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ceramic
Measurements
179 mm (diameter)
Place of origin
Hanley
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662923
Summary
A child's china plate decorated with colour transfer images from the tales by Beatrix Potter. Running around the rim of the plate is a gold lustre line and images of a mother rabbit wearing a blue dress and white apron helping to dress two bunnies wearing red cloaks (the one on the left carries a basket); a frog; a mouse wearing a blue dress and red jacket; two white geese one wearing a red bonnet, the other a blue bonnet; a striped cat; and Jemima Puddleduck wearing a red shawl and blue bonnet.
Marks and inscriptions
Base of the plate, beneath the image of a sailing ship: 'A.E. GRAY AND CO LTD/ HANLEY. ENGLAND.'
Makers and roles
A. E. Gray & Co. Ltd, maker