Shape Type
Dinner & Dessert Wares
Pattern Type
Landscapes and Waterscapes
Date
1884-1890
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 9.13 in (23.19 cm)
Maker
Wallis Gimson & Co.

Maker's Mark:

Printed
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Description:

An octagonal aesthetic movement earthenware plate printed in dark brown and painted underglaze in shades of fuchsia or red, golden yellow, green, and blue.  The pattern features an exotic geometric border with ferns, cherry blossoms, wild orchids and a butterfly surrounding two cartouches; one is of the Room in Which Shakespeare Was Born and the other Anne Hathaway's Cottage. Hathaway married Shakespeare in November of
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