" /> Printed British Pottery & Porcelain | Plate
Collection of Winterthur Museum
 

Shape Type: Dinner & Dessert Wares

Pattern Type: Literature, Classical, Mythology, and the Arts

Series Type: Caledonia

Date: c. 1835-1840

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 10.68 in (27.1272 cm)

Maker: William Adams & Sons

Maker's Mark:

Printed
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Description:

An earthenware plate printed in black and purple in a pattern named CALEDONIA.  The pattern name is printed on the back along with an impressed ADAMS mark.  The plate features one of the many scenes from the William Adams and Sons Caledonia Series. "Caledonia" was the Roman name for northern Britain and was also a name used in poetry to describe the Scottish Highlands....


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