Earthenware platter with brown transfer-printed pattern "Geneva." Border pattern of scrolls and flowers. Central scene of women washing clothes from crude, covered dock with city visible in distance.
platters
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
Dish, Serving
Platter
Scrolling Border
Flower
Tree
Rock
Fence
Women
City
Mountain
Dock
Washing
Platter
"GENEVA / W & C" (printed)
"16" (impressed)
Geneva
Wood & Challinor (Maker)
Tunstall, England, Staffordshire
1 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 17 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Mary Watson
1935.94
Tunstall (County of Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom)
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