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Earthenware plate with blue transfer-printed pattern "Berry" depicting naturalistic berries on branches with leaves and prickers. Also a bee or butterfly.
dinner plates
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
floral patterns
flow blue (ceramic glaze)
foliation (pattern)
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Plate, Dinner
Vine
Leaves
Sprig
Bee
Berry
Plate, Dinner
"BERRY/ WR" (Painted)
"Mrs. H.H. Giberts/ Great-grandmother's/ (Mrs. Ebenezer Young)/ dinner plate" and "May Peck Turnbull/ My grandmother/ Mrs. Ebenezer Young's/ dinner plate" (two handwritten labels)
Berry
Possibly Ridgway, William (Maker)
Shelton / Hanley, England, Staffordshire
9 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Huntly H. Gilbert
1963.333
Probably County of Staffordshire (England, United Kingdom) [county]
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