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Pearlware transfer-print plate. Molded alphabet and a red vitruvian scroll border. Black transfer print illustrating a pastoral scene.
plates (dishes)
earthenware
transfer printing
pearlware
glazing (coating)
Knickknack
Plate, Decorative
Plate, Decorative
"POOR RICHARD'S MAXIM'S/ Plow deep while slaggards sleep & you shall have corn to sell & to keep./ Work to day for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow." (Black transfer print.)
70
Unknown
7 1/8 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.374
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