Plate
W. Davenport and Co.
Category
Ceramics
Date
1820 - 1840
Materials
Ironstone china
Measurements
25 mm (Height); 240 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Longport
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871058
Summary
A pair of dessert plates, ironstone china, circular with foot rim, Davenport, Longport, Stoke-on-Trent, ca 1820-40; transfer printed in blue with pattern number 6, with the central motif of a bird perhched ona branch above a large peony flower, a large flowering branch and other blossoms to the left, a border of flowers around the well, with simple printed looping border pattern of flowers and leaves, the print enamelled in pink, red, yellow, purple and blue.
Makers and roles
W. Davenport and Co., potter
References
Terence A. Lockett and Geoffrey A. Godden, 1989, Davenport: China, Earthenware and Glass 1794-1887,, pp. 117-8, plates 91. 92