A blue transfer print pearlware plate. The central design depicts the Kent East Indiaman, which is bordered by an aquatic motif.
plates (dishes)
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Earthenware
Tin Glazed
Transfer Printed
Trade
Shell
Ship
Wave
Plate, Food
Impressed in bottom: The Kent East Indiaman [?]
Kent East Indiaman, The
Subject The Kent East Indiaman,
Enoch Wood & Sons (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
15/16 (D), 9 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Margaret R. Kimberley
1927.194
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