Circular plate form with shallow well; white clay body with underglaze blue transfer print design; "Kenilworth Pattern" scene with cathedral in background and for figures at the foot of a tree in the foreground; foot ring.
butter chips
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
underglazing
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Transfer Printed
Underglazed
Kenilworth
PLATE, BUTTER
Printed company and pattern mark on bottom.
Kenilworth
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Alertons Ltd. (Maker)
Longton, England
3.25 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.641.1
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