Source Description:

Title: Carlton Hall, Northamptonshire
Artist: Unknown
Engraver / Plate Maker: Unknown

This print appears in Marshall's Select Views in Great Britain. Carlton Hall is a privately owned 17th century country house. It is the home of the Palmer family. John Bale, High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1624, replaced the old manor house with the present house on the same site in 1636.

Description:

This small earthenware plate is perhaps a dessert or bread plate. The more common name used for this series is America and Independence, due to those words appearing on the plate. The Armans assigned this view No. 8.  The central pattern on this example is taken from the source print shown below.   Prior to discovery of the source prints that Clews used for these patterns, researchers David and Linda Arman endeavored to provide descriptive names for them.  The Armans named this scene Two Story Building, Two Wings and Center Section.