Description:
One of two oval English creamware plaques with black transfer prints, this one of George Washington with the inscription, "WASHINGTON / HIS COUNTRY'S FATHER." A. E. Gray and Company operated in Hanley, England, from 1913 through 1934, when they moved production to Stoke-on-Trent. This operation apparently continued until the 1960s, producing a coarse earthenware decorated with a pseudo-Sunderland splash luster and using black transfer prints such as "The Shipwright's Arms" and the "Constitution" and "Java." They also may have produced these plaques - made of heavy earthenware with crude transfer prints. These plaques may have been produced as historical reproductions, but the lack of appropriate marks made them deceive buyers into thinking that they were made in the early 19th century. Ex. Coll. John B. Morris A similar Gray's Pottery jug with this same decoration with Lafayette on the reverse is known with pink splash luster (see file).
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