Not on display

Plate

ca. 1810 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of earthenware transfer-printed with underglaze blue, and with a slightly wavy edge. Printed in blue with an octagonal panel in the middle containing an Italian landscape with a ruined tower, a road with a figure on horseback, a river and distant mountains. Border of broken columns and tablets and one has the words 'Bentley Wharfe Bourne Sept'.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware transfer-printed with underglaze blue
Brief description
Plate of earthenware transfer-printed with underglaze blue, and with a slightly wavy edge, probably made by George Miles and Charles James Mason of Lane Delph, Fenton, ca. 1810.
Physical description
Plate of earthenware transfer-printed with underglaze blue, and with a slightly wavy edge. Printed in blue with an octagonal panel in the middle containing an Italian landscape with a ruined tower, a road with a figure on horseback, a river and distant mountains. Border of broken columns and tablets and one has the words 'Bentley Wharfe Bourne Sept'.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Bentley Wharfe Bourne Sept' (On one of the ruined pieces of architecture)
  • 'MASON'S CAMBRIAN ARGIL / 21' (Impressed)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Clay brought from Wales. One of two plates with 414:1197/A-1885 (Sch. II 440A).
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. II 440 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:1197-1885

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Record createdMay 6, 2009
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