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Eight-sided earthenware serving dish with molded foliate scroll handles and brown transfer-print "Abbey Ruins" pattern. Cows grazing among Gothic ruins. Fruit, flowers and ewer trophy grouping on border; polygram border around outside of body.
vegetable dishes
serving dishes
earthenware
glazing (coating)
transfer printing
Gothic (Medieval)
Gothic Revival
landscapes (representations)
Dish, Serving
Fruit
Flower
Ewer
Ruins
Cow
Village
Mountain
Dish, Serving
"[striding lion] / ABBEY / RUINS [in scroll cartouche] / T. MAYER LONGPORT" (printed)
Abbey Ruins
Mayer, Thomas (Maker)
Longport, England, Staffordshire
2 1/4 x 10 x 12 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Miss Mary Eustis
1940.230
Longport (Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom)
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