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Blue, transfer-print pearlware platter. Diamond chain edge and border of four cartouches: antelope, lion, elk, man with white horse, radiating from central rectangular scene of rhinocerous with sailing vessel in background; cartouches separated by baskets of flowers.
platters
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
pearlware
figure- and animal-derived motifs
antelopes
boats
elks (moose)
flower baskets
horse (animal)
lion
men (male humans)
animals
rhinoceroses
Dish, Serving
Platter
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Tin Glazed
Quadrupeds
Antelope
Lion
Elk
Man
Horse
Rhinocerous
Boat
Fruit Basket
Platter
"16" (Impressed on bottom)
Quadrupeds
Hall & Sons, John (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
13 1/4 (W) (inches)
Gift of S. Prescott Fay
1969.610.129
County of Staffordshire (England, United Kingdom) [county]
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