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Dinner plate

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1845-1850

GUSN

GUSN-14691

Description

Staffordshire flow-blue part of dinner set; the central motif of Gothic cathedrals in a landscape; edges w/ foliate scrolling vines; saturated cobalt blue resulting in blurred designs. Dinner plate.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dinner plates
earthenware
molding (forming)
transfer printing
Gothic Revival
Earthenware
Molded
Transfer Printed
Gothic Revival
Gothic
PLATE, DINNER

Inscription

Transfer on reverse: ""GOTHIC/ J F & Co"" w/in a shield surrounded w/ flowering vines and in flow blue.

Pattern

Gothic

Associated Building

Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Jacob Furnival & Co. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Cobridge, England

Dimensions

10.5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Amelia W. Little

Accession Number

1986.93.7

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