Plate (one of a pair)

1860-1900

Measurements

1-1/8 in x 9 in (dia)

Materials

Polychrome transfer printed and gilded white earthenware

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation

Accession Number

2012.147

Inscription

“204” in burnt orange is lightly painted on the bottom of each plate just inside the foot ring.

Condition Notes

Plate 2012.147.1 is lightly stained.

Comments

The pair of plates has a brightly colored transfer-printed image in the center of a group of different sea shells and sea weeds.  The plate rim has a narrow gilded line around the inside edge and a wider gilded band of half-rounds around the plate edge, which has eight very shallow shaped lobes.  The glaze covering the plates is lightly tinted blue to impart a color white color, suggestive of porcelain bodies and in the manner of pearlwares made in the beginning of the 19th century.