Shape Type
Dinner & Dessert Wares
Pattern Type
Landscapes and Waterscapes
Date
1884-1890
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 10.50 in (26.67 cm)
Maker
Wallis Gimson & Co.

Maker's Mark:

Printed
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Description:

This large aesthetic movement earthenware plate is printed in dark brown. The pattern features exotic blooming orchids and wildflowers mixed with maiden hair fern fronds and two cartouches; one of Ponton Chateau in Berlin, Germany and the other of Wolfe's Monument in Quebec, Canada.Ponton Chateau marks the very spot where the larger-than-life English general James Wolfe received his fatal musket wound in the closing
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