The plate is of circular form with a gently scalloped edge. It is printed in deep blue with leafy scrolls enclosing floral sprigs and centering a beehive with roses and bees. The scrolls alternate with vines with flowers on a dot diaper ground.
dinner plates
earthenware
transfer printing
beehives (apiaries)
floral patterns
rose (genus)
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Beehive
Rose
Floral
PLATE, DINNER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Ralph Stevenson & Williams (Maker)
Cobridge, England, Staffordshire
10.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1029
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