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The plate is of circular form with a dished rim and a slightly scalloped edge. It is painted, showing two hunters with dogs in a wooded setting with English country homes in the distance. It is within a wide floral border with a band of linked ovals at the edge.
plates (dishes)
earthenware
transfer printing
figure- and animal-derived motifs
dog (animal)
floral patterns
houses
hunting
hunters (people)
scenes (depictions)
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Scenic
House
Floral
Huntsmen
Dog
Hunting
PLATE
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Herculaneum (Maker)
England
10 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1030
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