Hot water plate
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
China and metal
Measurements
234 mm (Dia)
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 929426.2
Summary
One of five food warming china plates with metal container bases for hot water: (a) plain white and marked 'COPPER / MADE IN ENGLAND'; (b) with blue/grey cornflower(?) transfer print; (c) as 'a' but cracked; (d) small, plain white dish, cracked, marked REGISTERED TRADEMARK / COPPER; (e) with one wide and two narrow dark red bands, cracked and very rusty around the sides, no maker's mark.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).