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Hummingbird Brown Transfer English Platter ~ Devonshire ~ 1884

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Code: 10925



AESTHETIC DARK BROWN TRANSFERWARE POLYCHROME PLATTER

DEVONSHIRE PATTERN

Ridgways Potteries

Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire England

c. 1884

This Victorian Aesthetic Movement 12 " long x 8 1/2 " wide platter is transfer printed in dark brown and finished with hand painted orange highlights.  The pattern features a fancy pin wheel flower border around a completely covered well with oversized daisy type flowers and three magnificent cartouches.  One of Japanesque bamboo, one of a smiling fish swimming amongst the seaweed corral and seashells, and the largest is of a Hummingbird perched in the branches watching the sun set over the landscape.

Condition is great.  Never used.