Plate
- Title:
- Pains Hill, Surrey
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.185
- Creator:
- Hall, Ralph
- Place of Origin:
- Tunstall, England
- Date:
- 1822-1840
- Description:
- Plate. Blue transfer printed earthenware. Circular plate with upward curving rim, which is shaped into eight slightly rounded sections. Underglaze, transfer-printed design in deep blue. Central scene on inner surface is surrounded by an elaborately scrolled border and shows a two-storied structure with portico (pillars on front), road curving at left, two horses, one dark, one white, with riders in foreground. Wide border with fruit and flowers, veined background and acanthus leaf band at edge. Outer surface undecorated. Blue underglaze printed mark on bottom: "R. HALL'S / SELECT VIEWS / PAINS HILL. / SURREY." and "Stone China", being the names of maker, series, view and ware respectively. Also, impressed "10" on reverse.
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Pearl ware - Dimensions:
- H-1 Dia-10 inches
- Provenance:
- Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- People:
- Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)
- Subjects:
- Pains Hill, Surrey
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