Spoon rest tray of ovoid or bulb-like form. It is decorated with underglaze blue transfer print scenes of [illeg.] execution with floral motifs and a central rectangular panel of landscape.
trays
ironstone (pottery)
underglazing
floral patterns
Ironstone
Underglazed
Floral
Landscape
TRAY, FLATWARE
Ink stamped on the bottom underside, in a banner under a crown, is: PATENT IRONSTON/CHINA [also known as Mason's ironstone China of Staffordshire, England- Lane Delph.
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
England
6.625 x 4.625 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.524
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