8 ~ POLYCHROME AESTHETIC BROWN TRANSFERWARE PLATES

DEVONSHIRE PATTERN

Ridgways Potteries
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire England
c. 1885

These Victorian aesthetic 9 3/8 " plates are transfer printed in very dark brown with fabulous under glaze hand painting in rich orange luster.

The pattern features a fancy pin wheel flower border around a completely covered well with oversized daisy type flowers and three magnificent cartouches. One with a proud cock watching the sun rise beneath the cherry branch, another with a bird chasing an insect, and the last is of ocean shells and sea corral with two large unusual fish.

Condition is Great No chips, cracks, hairlines or repairs.