Plate
- Object Name:
- Plate
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.227
- Creator:
- Davenport, John
- Place of Origin:
- Longport, Staffordshire, England
- Date:
- 1812-1830
- Description:
- Soup Plate. Whiteware, earthenware. with pink and green transfer print decorations. Round with Queensware pattern rim; foot ring present. Red transfer print design border with white edge, pink flowers with artichoke-like figures extending into bottom of plate. Central scene is green transfer print and shows English-type castle with turret at left on shore of lake. Islands in lake and mountains in distance. Tree on mound at left, stream center foreground, man on shore at right holding long spear. Large trees on high bank, right. Impressed mark: 'DAVENPOR " with anchor below and "4" above. Printed mark in red "DAVENPORT" inside conventionalized band with flowers at each end. Also in red handpainted "e".
- Material:
- Ceramic
Earthenware - Dimensions:
- H-1.6 Dia-10.4 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
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