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1868-1933
GUSN-6167
Slightly scalloped edged circular cakeplates have central hand-painted motif of two multi-colored pheasants perched on small pink blossomed tree; underneath, a grassy spot; to the left is an urn with red and blue flowers; similar flowers form border in transfer printed sprigs; cavetto line is an alternating floral diaper and brown line diaper; outer rim is scrolled in yellow with radiating links repeating out to edge.
cake plates (serving vessels)
earthenware
painting (image-making)
hand-painted
vitrification
transfer printing
figure- and animal-derived motifs
pheasant
trees
urns
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Transfer Printed
Pheasant
Painted
Tree
Urn
PLATE, CAKE
Bottom marked 6606; attached card ""Copeland 1847-1891 SPODE FACTORY OF ENGLAND""; stamped on back ""COPELAND late SPONDE Rd No. 615911 ENGLAND""
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Spode Pottery (Maker)
Stoke-on-Trent, England, Staffordshire; England
0.75 (H), 7.625 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1166.7
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