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The plate is of circular form with a dished rim and with a slightly scalloped edge. It is printed in blue, with a view of Wellcombe Castle; also a river in the foreground with a band of "bound reeding" and a wide floral and grape cluster border and a band of "cable" at the edge.
plates (dishes)
earthenware
transfer printing
castles (fortifications)
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Eagle
Castle
Wellcombe
PLATE
Impressed on the bottom on two concentric rings with an eagle at the center is: Semi China/E. Wood & Son's Burslem Warrented. Printed on the botton in a ribbon is: Welcome Warwickshire .
Wellcombe
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Wellcombe
E. Woods & Sons (Maker)
Burslem, England, Staffordshire
10 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1027
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