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Earthenware plate with scalloped rim and green transfer-print scene with red border. The transfer-print pattern, "Washington", depicts a statue of a seated man in Roman military dress in front of trees, fence and urn. In the scene's mid-ground, three men stand beside a river with domed and other buildings on the far shore. The border is printed with flowers and fruit alternating with a scene of a tomb or mausoleum on a rock outcrop with ruins in the foreground.
dinner plates
plates (dishes)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Plate, Dinner
Plate, Dinner
"WASHINGTON [printed on base of urn] / E W & S" (Printed in green.)
Washington
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
11.1923
Enoch Wood & Sons (Maker)
England
1 (H), 10 1/4 (diameter) (inches)
In memory of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Harrington
1943.230
Burslem (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom)
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