Plate

ca. 1877 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Earthenware plate decorated with a transfer printed design and painted in overglaze colours, showing a young girl in classical dress testing the water of a Roman bath with her foot, from a Copeland Minton plaque design

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Thrown and turned earthenware, transfer printed and painted in overglaze colours
Brief description
Plate transfer printed and painted in overglaze colours, showing a young girl in classical dress entering a Roman bath, from a Copeland Minton plaque design, by Powell & Bishop, England (Hanley, Staffordshire), ca. 1877
Physical description
Earthenware plate decorated with a transfer printed design and painted in overglaze colours, showing a young girl in classical dress testing the water of a Roman bath with her foot, from a Copeland Minton plaque design
Dimensions
  • Taken from register diameter: 23.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
impressed 'P & B' below a three leaved motif
Credit line
Purchased
Object history
Scene based on a Minton plaque design, by W S Coleman of about 1870
Collection
Accession number
C.58-1985

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Record createdJune 18, 2004
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