8 ~ AESTHETIC MOVEMENT PERIOD BROWN POLYCHROME TRANSFERWARE PLATES

DEVONSHIRE PATTERN

Ridgways Potteries

Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire England c. 1885

These large Victorian aesthetic 10 1/4 " dinner plates are transfer printed in very dark brown and hand painted in orange luster under the glaze.

The pattern features a fancy pin wheel flower border around a completely covered well with oversized daisy type flowers and three magnificent cartouches. One geometric swirls, one with a young bird, and the largest is of a proud Heron with the sun coming up in the background.

Condition is great. Clean and bright. No chips, cracks or repairs.