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1820-1840
GUSN-36580
Earthenware plate with green transfer-print border and central red transfer-print landscape in the "Caledonia" pattern. The pattern depicts a man in kilt and plumed hat blowing a horn while holding on rifle. Another man, raising his hat, and leaping stags are in the near distance, The border pattern is a repeating scene of Scottish hunters in kilts alternating with a scroll and flower figure.
salad plates
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
Dish, Eating
Plate, Food
Plate, Salad
Man
Mountain
Stag
Exultation
Plate, Salad
"CALEDONIA [in frame with rifle hanging on buck's head]" (printed)
"ADAMS" (impressed)
"72" (handwritten)
Caledonia
William Adams & Sons (Maker)
Tunstall/Stoke, England, Staffordshire
7/8 (H), 8 3/4 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Mrs. Isaac Sprague
1934.443
Tunstall (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom)
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