Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes

Date: 1820-1824

Dimensions:

  • Length: 16.50 in (41.91 cm)
  • Width: 13.00 in (33.02 cm)

Maker: Charles Heathcote & Co.

Maker's Mark:

Printed

Description:

An earthenware platter printed in blue in a Chinoiserie design and painted in pink, orange, yellow, purple and green overglaze.  There are also gilded outlines of the bench, trees, rocks, urn and border.  The word Cambria, which is part of the mark, refers not to a pattern title but to the Cambria clay used in the manufacture of the platter.  Cambria clay was used to produce a whiter earthenware.

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