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Artist/Maker	Tom Taylor (designed)
Place of origin	Hornsea

Plate, high-fired earthenware (vitramic) with central decoration in polychrome enamel. Circular plate with four bands of undecorated beige vitramic around a raised rim. Central patterrn a historiated 'C' in the style of an illuminated manuscript with a nativity scene in polychrome and gilding. The 'C' is set within a square with a latticework pattern surrounded by a circle whose spandrels are decorated with garlands of michaelmas daisy. Marks: Christmas Plate 1979.

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Object type	Plate
Materials and techniques	Earthenware
Brief description	Plate, high-fired earthenware with central decoration in polychrome enamel. Tom Taylor, Hornsea, England, 1979.
Physical description	Plate, high-fired earthenware (vitramic) with central decoration in polychrome enamel. Circular plate with four bands of undecorated beige vitramic around a raised rim. Central patterrn a historiated 'C' in the style of an illuminated manuscript with a nativity scene in polychrome and gilding. The 'C' is set within a square with a latticework pattern surrounded by a circle whose spandrels are decorated with garlands of michaelmas daisy. Marks: Christmas Plate 1979.
Credit line	Given by C.B. Rawson, Hornsea Pottery
Object history	First in a series of nine, limited edition. Designed by Tom Taylor to celebrate Christmas 1979.
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	C.57-1980

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O278902/plate-tom-taylor/

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